Word: nbc
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Died. Rufus Rose, 70, puppeteer, whose marionette offspring, Howdy Doody, was one of early television's big stars; of peritonitis; in New London, Conn. Rose joined NBC's Howdy Doody Show in 1947, redesigned its gravel-voiced, freckle-faced principal and colleagues, Dilly-Dally and Phineas T. Bluster, and pulled Howdy's strings through countless squabbles and seltzer battles with Buffalo Bob Smith and Clarabell until 1960, when the network dropped the program and disbanded its vast peanut gallery of young fans...
...pick up credentials. Otherwise it has allowed them and their Vietnamese stringers to roam freely around the city, now unofficially designated as Ho Chi Minn City. Carefully attentive, the P.R.G. has permitted Western reporters, including the eight Americans on hand for United Press International, the Associated Press, and the NBC and CBS television networks-to hold onto their rooms at the Continental Palace and other choice hotels. Along with the P.R.G. troops, the newsmen can buy dated copies of Playboy and Penthouse still on the newsstands, using old Thieu-regime currency...
Nearly a year ago, Henry Kissinger promised to give his next televised interview to NBC'S Barbara Walters. Yet every time the tigress of the Today show tried to collect, some international crisis intervened. "I kept trying to find out when, when, when," she recalls. Last week she found out. Kissinger agreed to sit still for more than an hour in the State Department's handsome Madison Room, and chunks of Walters' revealing taped interview with him appeared on Today for four consecutive mornings...
...NBC left behind one correspondent, James Laurie, and a cameraman, Australian Neil Davis; on hand for CBS was former British Schoolteacher Eric Cavaliero, who had taken refuge in the network's Saigon office last month. About a dozen British correspondents, along with several Frenchmen and Italians, also stayed. Of the 37 Japanese journalists still in Saigon, a few were there willingly, but most because their American evacuation buses had not shown up. Other non-volunteers were United Press International's bureau manager Alan Dawson, 32, Asian News Editor Leon Daniel, 43, Correspondents Paul Vogle and Charles ("Chad") Huntley...
...back were problems for the newsmen. In palmier days American troops had provided helicopters, telephone links and logistical support. Now the South Vietnamese army ran the show, and it was studiously indifferent. When some commercial flights within the country were suspended, newsmen had to turn to charter planes. Said NBC'S TV News vice president, Richard Fischer: "We are totally in the hands of the various crooks who run charter services...