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...best estate-planning advice Harry Leiser ever got came from his rabbi. "He had seen too many families fight over estates after the death of the parents," says Leiser, 56, a New London, Conn., commercial--real estate owner. "He suggested two things: treat each child equally, and don't rule from the grave...
...Leiser, the father of two grown sons--one a law student, the other a teacher--took the advice to heart. "Family harmony was my motivation," he says, "and I divided my primary assets equally between my sons--with no strings attached--even though one has much greater earning potential than the other." Moreover, Leiser told his sons what they could expect so that any potential conflict could be dealt with before his death...
...minutes last Tuesday, the U.S. press was ready-perhaps too ready. ABC, CBS and NBC together spent an estimated $10 million to cover the interlocking dramas. Each fielded some 400 news reporters, producers and technicians worldwide to cover the stories, pulling many staffers off other assignments. Says Ernest Leiser, CBS vice president for special events and political coverage: "We had to cannibalize the rest of CBS news in order to do it." The Associated Press and United Press International had hundreds of reporters in Washington, Wiesbaden, Frankfurt and Algiers, as well as in dozens of American towns where relatives...
...lure of news in the raw though, it was wariness born of long experience as reporters that caused Cronkite'and his executive producer Ernest Leiser to hesitate and worry for hours over whether to run the now-famous film sequence showing U.S. Marines in August 1965 burning a Vietnamese village. Were the pictures fair to the U.S.? To the Marines? Or was their message somewhat out of balance? In the end, it was decided that the pictures were simply too good to pass up. So, along with a narration by CBS Correspondent Morley Safer, Cronkite's audience...
Rusty Skills. In contrast, The Looking Glass War is totally dehumanized. Leamas is believable; Leiser is not. The book's tension depends not so much on Leiser's spying mission to East Germany as on the efforts of a scorned and inferior arm of British intelligence ("the Department") to haul itself back into the Establishmentarian swim on Leiser's shoulders. With a typically British mixture of ineptness and guile, the seven men who still operate the Department in the drab house on Blackfriars' Road, jostle for position, portentously con "the Minister" for a bigger budget, extra...