Word: jawing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...older and wiser, know that talent, like blood type, is decided before birth; that the plainsman, the rebel and the runaway are all branches on the same family tree. It is more than the physical resemblance that unites them?the El Greco shanks, the narrow faces with too much jaw, and the pale, inquiring eyes of hunted animals. There is also a common quality of purpose, a mutual undertow of melancholy...
...Wallace landed a job with CBS News. Colleagues were leary of a man who had come over from the entertainment side, but he soon won his journalistic spurs. At age 49, Mike did a tour in Viet Nam. At the 1968 Democratic Convention, he took a sock on the jaw from a Chicago police inspector but kept his feet. In the shop, too, Wallace is a pile-driving competitor. He fills almost two-thirds of the air time on 60 Minutes but maintains a fond, prank-playing friendship with Co-Editor Reasoner. Mike gets along well with junior associates...