Word: mudd
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...self-righteousness began Tuesday morning. In full page newspaper advertisements, NBC touted its team of Brokaw, Roger Mudd and John Chancellor, Boxed in a corner, like some surgeon general warning, appeared the first example of "electoral process respect," or EPR. NBC, the ad promised, would not call any state until the network had received some actual returns. That high-minded avowal forced NBC to wait practically an entire minute. By 8:01 p.m., enough "actual returns" had trickled in to allow NBC to credit Reagan with 166 electoral votes...
There was some welcome relief. Roger Mudd brought intelligence to the NBC triumvirate. And Brinkley managed to seem as sharp and wry at ABC as he once was at NBC. ABC also scored with George Will and Tom Wicker, if only because both seemed so visibly confused by Walters' words...
...toward a dramatic and offsetting win on the West Coast, Hart canceled election-night network interviews in Los Angeles, missing a possibly vital chance to call attention to his California triumph. NBC had promoted its scheduled interview with Hart on the nightly news. When he bailed out, Correspondent Roger Mudd put questions to an empty chair, a bit of low-blow journalism that enraged the candidate when he heard about it later...
...Mudd Library features taller stacks with narrower aisles, a big space saver, and Yale has also installed compact shelving in its Divinity School library. But Mudd can only take another 500,000 books, which isn't enough to solve the space problem in the rest of its various buildings...
Yale, for example, opened its new Mudd Library a year and a half ago, and moved one million volumes there from its central Sterling Library. With eight million volumes in the system altogether, and four million in Sterling until the big move, the central building already held more that Yale expected it could, according to the university librarian, Rutherford D. Rogers...