Word: newswomen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...critical of this female invasion. "It's the same thing as when blacks started to work in TV," grouses a leading Washington correspondent. "Instead of bringing them along slowly, the tendency has been to put them in high-visibility positions for which they're not prepared." TV newswomen do tend to be younger and less experienced than their male colleagues. For that reason and because they are "the first wave," they are highly competitive. As NBC Correspondent Douglas Kiker puts it, "When you want somebody to go out in a blizzard on a Sunday night...
...Delos itself. Futureworld is daffy and easy to take, with a relaxed, ingratiating performance by Fonda and a very witty, rambunctious one by Ms. Danner, who is altogether one of the niftiest actresses around. Resemblances between Ms. Danner's deft caricature and a couple of real live newswomen named Barbara Walters and Sally Quinn are probably not coincidental...
...sunrise sweepstakes began last May after Walters announced her change of venue. NBC Vice Presidents Richard Fischer and Robert Mulholland screened some 150 tapes of local and network newswomen. Since July a dozen candidates have been brought to New York for interviews or live auditions, and three have reached the finals: Pauley, 25, who anchors the 5 o'clock news on NBC's Chicago affiliate; Consumer Expert Betty Furness, 60, who took the job provisionally when Walters left and completed her tryout last Friday; and Cassie Mackin, 38, a crack NBC Washington correspondent. After Mackin's final...
...dentists, 3.5%, is little higher now than in 1910. The only professional category in which the CEA found a steady and large increase is editors and reporters. In 1970 women made up 41% of that category, v. 25% in 1940. With much reason, even this figure is questioned by newswomen, and the CEA has no separate breakdown of the number of editors...
...away, you're all too young for me, and you don't let me get on with my business," said Greek Shipping Tycoon Aristotle Onassis, 66, to a clutch of newswomen in Teheran, as he arrived for some oil talks with the Shah. But Jacqueline Onassis, 42, doing her sightseeing and shopping thing, answered without hesitation when a woman reporter asked her if she is the same sort of person today as when she was married to President Kennedy. "I am today what I was yesterday and, with luck, will be tomorrow," she replied. "I am a woman...