Word: kintner
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Both Waskow and Col. William R. Kintner of the Foreign Policy Research Institute thought that American military strategy should establish conditions in which some form of political "victory" would be possible. Hughes took issue with this. "Not winning but ending the cold war should be the first goal," he said...
...President Robert E. Kintner called his news staff together on election eve, gave them a rock 'em, roll 'em fight talk. "Men, you may think this election is a contest between Kennedy and Nixon." Coach Kintner thundered, "It's not. It's a race between...
...mediocrity pained her. To Critic John Crosby, this was his cup of chlorine, and last week he took over where Critic Williams had left off. In his New York Herald Tribune column, he expanded the argument into a general indictment of recent NBC network policy under President Robert Kintner and Board Chairman Robert Sarnoff...
Calling Crosby's column "vindictive" and "distorted," Sarnoff, Kintner & Co. objected that he is "not informed, hates television, and uses his column as a springboard to bounce quips off." He was unfair, they said, to compare today's programing with the show spectrum of the Weaver era, since ABC had meanwhile emerged as a third major network, and it was competitively necessary to match its frank and potent mediocrities. What really bothered the NBC brass was not Crosby's charge of mediocrity but his suggestion that the network is not making money. As part of the parent...
...Hong Kong-but for some reason, he went by way of Florida. Somehow, he happened to land in West Palm Beach, a quick Cadillac ride from Boca Raton, where NBC brass happened to be attending a meeting with network affiliates. Quite naturally, when NBC Bosses Bob Sarnoff and Bob Kintner learned of Paar's arrival, they dropped everything and motored up the highway to greet him. The meeting was brief. Paar handed his visitors a letter apologizing for his walkout and promising to live up to his contract. Both Bobs read it and agreed that Jack could take...