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...further respect of writing reporters-who deplore most TV newsmen-with his candid and unmincing coverage, his use of the TV camera to help find sense rather than sensationalism. Called home to help on election night last November, Chancellor was given the Midwest desk, outdid Huntley and Brinkley in sagacity, and was one of the few commentators who kept saying all night long that the result would be close...
...cast almost outdid their material (or, to use his own idiom, Segal had fine actors on base when he hit this Homer). At any rate, they were superb...
...hastily sculpted plaster bust of Yuri. Moscow planned a 287-ft. commemorative obelisk. Yuri's voice in space on an LP record with commentary in six languages was being readied for world sale. Yuri's image blossomed on everything from postcards to pottery. The grateful Soviet government outdid itself: it bestowed on the first spaceman and his household of six a new, four-room apartment...
Short of granting interviews with Eichmann, the Israeli government outdid itself to accommodate the visitors. Censorship was lifted on all trial copy. In and around the courtroom building gleamed $350,000 worth of new transmission facilities, including banks of teletypes staffed by Jerusalem housewives hastily recruited and trained. Each guest was equipped with a headset radio on which he could follow the trial in four languages-French, English, German, Hebrew. If a reporter missed anything, he could refer to a daily mimeographed record of the court proceedings-also in four languages, plus a summary in Yiddish. Even the trial...
...TIME outdid itself in distorting the Wellesley fluoridation story and dragging in the familiar and oft-refuted falsehoods. The value of water fluoridation is not "beyond scientific dispute," and the Washington, D.C., data have even more holes than the children's teeth. And the disfigured teeth, pictured in your article, were caused by Denver city water with just under the recommended i.e part per million of fluoride...