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...Author Ray Bradbury at Harvey Mudd College in Claremont. Calif...
...turmoil of the news? In Rather's eagerness to keep his commitment to 60 Minutes too, he has been taping so many segments in advance that his smile has lately seemed a little tenser. He also knows that around CBS there were those who would have preferred Roger Mudd (who, being passed over, defected to NBC) or the amiable Charles Kuralt, whose CBS morning news has become something of a hit. The other two networks are also in the mood for change, but are waiting to see how well Rather works...
Some reporters missed the excitement of the old mike-to-mike combat with Richard Nixon, or the crisp pace of Jimmy Carter's minilectures. But most agreed with NBC Correspondent Roger Mudd, who expressed relief that reporters would no longer spring "from the half crouch exploding into a full gainer with shout" to get the President's attention. At week's end Brady announced two other changes: Reagan will hold occasional informal sessions with journalists beginning this week, and, as an experiment, questioners at his next formal press conference will be chosen by lottery...
Construction had started on Yale University's new Seeley G. Mudd Library. But inflation was exceeding expectations, and Yale needed to find another $1.5 million as the projected construction cost grew to $6.7 million. Meanwhile, resting virtually unseen in a library vault was the Yale coin collection's most famous gold piece, a 26-gram doubloon struck in 1787 by New York Goldsmith Ephraim Brasher...
little virtuous blackmail. Everything considered, a library may be a safer investment, even if its name is Mudd...