Word: nbc
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mike Caldwell for striking Henry out on his last time at bat. After a rash of racist hate mail early this year, Aaron has been receiving nearly 2,000 letters weekly from such varied admirers as moonstruck teen-agers ("We love you, Hanky-poo") and Alabama Governor George Wallace. NBC stands ready to interrupt its regularly scheduled programs to show Aaron hitting Nos. 712 through 715. Computer analysts, astrologists and assorted clairvoyants are issu ing almost daily predictions on his chances for the record this year (latest consensus: a cliffhanger until the season's last day, Sept. 30). Aaron...
...Coming from an Arab conservative who has always been considered one of America's good friends, Feisal's words were, despite their restrained tone, particularly chilling. "As friends of the U.S. and in the interest of maintaining and cementing this friendship," he said in an interview with NBC, "we counsel the U.S. to change its one-sided policy of favoritism to Zionism and support against the Arabs. We are deeply concerned that...
...stage right of husband John Dean III at the Senate Watergate hearings. Wanting to avoid unwelcome public attention since then, "Mo" has changed her hair color to light brown and the style to modified Botticelli angel. Trouble is, she plans to show off her disguise on NBC's Dinah Shore Show. Yet another hair style will then presumably be in order so that she can try again for anonymity...
When the CBS Evening News escalated its nightly show from 15 to 30 minutes a decade ago this week, NBC followed suit seven days later and ABC brought up the rear in January 1967. Since then, the NBC team of Chet Huntley and David Brinkley has split up, and ABC's game of anchormen roulette finally stopped spinning last year with the competitive combination of Harry Reasoner and Howard K. Smith. Only CBS's Walter Cronkite, 56, has outlasted the ten years of assassinations, riots, space shots, political conventions, elections and Viet Nam. In a business constantly crackling...
...appeal sends analysts groping for metaphors. Chicago Sun-Times TV Columnist Ron Powers thinks that "somewhere in the collective consciousness of people in this country is the ideal composite face and voice of the American Man-and Cronkite has it." Paul Klein, a former audience researcher at NBC, thinks that viewers have stuck with Cronkite because his rational rhetoric provides a buffer of sanity between the often frightening news images on their screens...