Word: judgments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rush to Judgment, Lane...
...sales of old wines and steam engine and ship models. The exquisite toys brought $1 15,556 in a day; a bottle of Chateau Pichon-Longueville 1878 brought more than $5 a glass. In such a heady atmosphere, Christie's now expects that Peter Paul Rubens' The Judgment of Paris, which they first appraised as a $280 copy by Lankrink (TIME, Sept. 16), will top $225,000 when it goes on the block next month. Another newly discovered Rubens, an oil sketch for his Samson and Delilah, will join it for an estimated $140,000. Henry Ford...
From that point on, Operation Sunrise reads like an exercise in frustration. The Russians, informed of the negotiations-against Dulles' better judgment-churlishly insisted that it was all really a plot to keep them out of the peace arrangements; at one point, Truman called the whole operation off to smooth the Bear's ruffled fur. Nazi changes of command kept eliminating generals who were sympathetic to Sunrise and replacing them with generals who were not. From Berlin, a counterplot by Himmler, designed only to steal the play away from Wolff, threatened to retire Sunrise to the limbo...
...shows on all the networks, it is Cronkite's that most consistently triumphs over the built-in drawbacks of TV newscasting. His reporters have learned to respect his news judgment; his producers have learned that he will back that judgment with a fierce pride. Despite the cost, he will not hesitate to remake the tape of his show when new film or a new story cries out for space-even after the original broadcast has already gone on the air in some parts of the country. He is determined to keep up with what he and other TV commentators...
...salary, which, after ten years, was still only $125 a week. When the Korean war broke out, he was hired by CBS and made an impromptu TV debut giving a lecture on the war, complete with chalk and blackboard. He was such a hit that against his better judgment he was soon shifted to television news. "It was a time," he says, "when no self-respecting newsman wanted anything to do with this new electronic beast...