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...Senator explained to TIME Correspondent Neil MacNeil that it was all for Nixon's benefit: "Golly, I thought it was so very obvious. The President of the United States lives essentially an isolated life. He has people around him. He has to depend on them to give advice, to see that he makes no untimely mistakes, to shield him from many things. I'd be an awfully poor Republican leader if I were not willing to shield the President of the United States from people I feel do him no good and could do him harm...
...House. President Nixon has called for re-examination of all U.S. tax policy, and Mills will be the congressional arbiter of any changes. Mills, who rarely gives on-the-record interviews, agreed to sit down for an examination of his current views on issues with TIME Congressional Correspondent Neil MacNeil. Mills' tour of the fiscal horizon...
Though witnesses were sympathetic with newscasters, they were scornful of other programming's effect on children. Robert MacNeil, a former NBC newsman now with the BBC, called TV the fabricator of a "decivilizing" mythological America, where violence is "sanctified" as a respected solution to human problems. "The adventure serials, the police shows, and the westerns all say that violence is fun, violence is manly, violence gets you girls," he said. "The networks may be cutting down on the number of blanks fired, but the cherishing of guns goes...
...Chief of Correspondents Dick Clurman deployed his men. Whatever his area of responsibility, each correspondent was looking for the unexpected lead, for the new dimension in a story so thoroughly covered by TV, radio and the rest of the press. Washington Bureau Chief John Steele and Congressional Correspondent Neil MacNeil had roving commissions. Washington's Lansing Lamont covered Rockefeller, and Simmons Fentress stayed with Nixon. At Convention Hall and in the Miami Beach hotels, Los Angeles Bureau Chief Marshall Berges stuck close to Candidate Ronald Reagan; Chicago's Loye Miller concentrated on the Middle West; Atlanta...
...worth their weight in gold in reporter-filled Miami, but TIME'S supplier had not come through with the ordered machines. Bermingham got to work, and soon rounded up 29 typewriters. In the view of TIME writers and editors, that was a coup to match those of MacNeil and Saltonstall...