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...story (without the interview) a week ago, at the end of which correspondent Mike Wallace announced that he and his colleagues were "dismayed that the management at CBS had seen fit to give in to perceived threats of legal action against us by a tobacco-industry giant." Wallace, Morley Safer and other CBS newsmen continued to voice their concerns in print and TV interviews, raising alarms that CBS's corporate bosses might be getting weak-kneed in the face of aggressive (and potentially expensive) threats of libel. It was CBS journalists on their most impressive high horse. "The public knows...
...dumbfounded," says Fitzwater. "I didn't think there was anything in the book that could elicit that response." Oh? How about: "Mike Wallace has been destroying people on television for years" (page 223)? Back at the taping, desperate executive producer Scott Carter got Wallace to send a replacement guest: Morley Safer. He was fine, but as guest Jackie Collins, who arrived late, said, "I wanted to see the fight...
...Morley and Thompson presumed that certain practices of the ancient Maya could be deduced from those of their descendants. Modern scientists are more rigorous; besides, they have the advantage of sophisticated technology, like radiocarbon dating, which can help test their theories...
...first half of the 20th century brought more excavations and more cataloging -- but still only scratched the surface of what was to come. By 1950 the field was dominated by J. Eric Thompson and Sylvanus Morley of the Carnegie Institution of Washington. Both are still revered as brilliant archaeologists, but some of their theories have been overturned by new evidence. Among their now outdated ideas: that the city centers of the Classic Maya were used primarily for ceremonial purposes, not for living; hieroglyphic texts described esoteric calendrical, astronomical and religious subjects but never recorded anything as mundane as rulers...
...where August's classified linage fell 17% below the same month last year, to the New York Times, the parent company of which reported last week that third-quarter profits from continuing operations fell 43.9%, in large part because of a 10.7% drop in ad linage. Says executive director Morley L. Piper of the New England Newspaper Association: "It's an industry- wide slump -- the worst in this region, I think, since the Depression years...