Word: lukewarm
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...book gives a very appealing sense of a good young reporter's old-fashioned professionalism. Willwerth's spare form, with its effort to "avoid history and politics wherever possible," naturally mixes death with lukewarm eggs, bad Saigon traffic, disappointing bar girls, and the other irritations Willwerth keeps counting. But the book brings the war home with fine, straight reportage on the G.I.s, their Galley debates and fraggings, and a heroin network he stumbles upon. When the year is up, Willwerth leaves Viet Nam, wondering whether his journalism mattered...
Still, the networks rarely change a winning team, and NBC News has recently had some lukewarm seasons. As a producer, Frank first united Chet Huntley and David Brinkley during the 1956 convention coverage, but the pair's breakup in 1970 left a vacuum in NBC's flagship evening news that has never been satisfactorily filled. ABC's aggressive team of Harry Reasoner and Howard K. Smith has chipped away at NBC's ratings, and CBS remains ahead in the competition. On the plus side-in prestige if not revenue-NBC is the only network running regularly...
...resignations with either "deep personal regret," "deep regret," "regret," or simply "appreciation." When Miles W. Kirkpatrick resigned last week after two years as chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, a White House spokesman could muster only "appreciation" for Kirkpatrick's services. After some questioning by the press, that lukewarm feeling was heated up a day later to "deep regret." Even so, as a Republican Senator explained: "Nixon expects people to know fundamentally what his philosophy is and generally to follow it. When they don't, he has ways of letting them know it is time to leave...
...DIFFICULT to see why so many students support Senator McGovern. Clearly his ideological stances oscillate about a point somewhere to the left of President Nixon. But the difference may be exaggerated, and outright Marxists are generally lukewarm about McGovern for just this reason. It is rather students at the leftward border of the establishment who wear McGovern buttons and, echoing the artful words of their champion, indignantly charge that the present administration is "the most immoral and corrupt" in our history. Still, vague general sentiments aside, one wonders which of his specific positions are so attractive...
...President Nixon would lose this state and that local Republican candidates should avoid any ties with the President. However, recent polls indicate that Nixon might even carry Massachusetts, and has encouraged state-wide Republicans not to totally ignore the national ticket. Linsky's answer to this is to profess' lukewarm support for the administration, while more loudly proclaiming his opposition to the war in Vietnam...