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...Schieffer has that story"? Yet the nation's celebrated top anchormen have held office, and popularity, for longer terms than Presidents. The fact is, their best qualities are only on stand-by reserve when they read the evening news. It is on other occasions-in knowledgeable ad-lib coverage of political conventions, space shots, presidential funerals-that they earn their spurs, their reputations, the trust of their viewers. Would Arledge himself be so dismissive of the anchoring role if ABC had Walter Cronkite and was No. 1 in the ratings? Arledge, though he professes to admire Reasoner...
...ceremonies, Douglas' wife Cathy unveiled a bust of her husband as six Supreme Court Justices, including Chief Justice Warren Burger, looked on. "Thanks for coming, Chief," smiled Douglas. "This has to be a quorum." Though he looked frail and gaunt in his wheelchair, he made some appropriate ad lib remarks in a thin, reedy voice and promised his audience to get well and hike again "the whole distance...
...Carole Stein, a Manhattan-based Christian Dior executive, is that "women are basically sick and tired of looking like men. Clothes have been so ungodly tailored." According to Designer Caulfield, the new look's popularity has a lot to do with the financial side of women's lib. "A working woman can afford to buy herself a $40 camisole, and she will reward herself with one." The look is also a symbol of today's more open sexuality, Caulfield maintains. "When a young woman gets dressed in the morning, she doesn't know where...
Mary, Queen of Scots was a woman's lib advocate moved not by her age, but by an internal drive to reverse the deep-seated prejudices against her sex. She wrote letters to her sister trying to impress upon her the need to be well-versed in women's literature, and well aware of the sundry contributions they've made outside the literary arts. The queen went so far as to recommend the memorization of lists of women writers, so that when called upon to defend the gender, every woman would have verbal ammunition at the tongue...
...Lib bloc was immediately attacked by many of the 70 members of the Labor Party's left-wing Tribune Group, which fears that some favorite socialist schemes will be vetoed by the Liberals. But last week's deal binds the two parties only until the end of the current parliamentary session in November. By then, Britain's economy is expected to improve, and Callaghan might be willing to risk a national election. Today, all opinion polls agree the Tories would win an election-although once in power, they would find it nearly impossible to deal with...