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...survey of 240 editors and reporters at the commercial networks PBS, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, U.S. News & World Report and TIME, Political Scientists Stanley Rothman of Smith College and S. Robert Lichter of George Washington University found that 48% believed that the Government should guarantee jobs, 68% argued that the Government should narrow the income gap between rich and poor, and 88% held that the U.S. legal system favors the wealthy. On social issues, 90% believed that women should have a right to an abortion, and only 25% considered homosexuality morally wrong...
...best known in America as the erudite, stately host of PBS's Masterpiece Theatre. But in his native country, Alistair Cooke's claim to fame rests largely on his Letter from...
...ignorant hopeful pre-freshman was I. Although raised beyond the pale of college hockey. I learned all about the ECAC, the Beanpot, and Harvard vs. B.U. from PBS broadcasts in the mid-'70s (sadly discontinued). Rereading old accounts of Dave Connors's sudden-death heroics confirmed that the game was, indeed, a Big Deal...
Other programs provide similarly elusive Kennedy retrospectives as well. ABC presented a lengthy review two weeks ago, and will televise a memorial service for JFK today. PBS will telecast "Thank You, Mr. President: The Press Conferences of JFK"; local programs in Boston--like "Good Day!" and "Chronicle"--will provide similar examinations...
Savitch became increasingly isolated after the tragedy, and her career seemed to stall. She took a partial leave from NBC to host the PBS program Frontline, and later lost her Saturday anchor slot. There were rumors that she had turned to cocaine to fuel her still relentless pace. Friends deny it. "Work is my narcotic. I get high from it," she told a colleague. But some fellow workers wondered, notably after she slurred words and stammered on a recent Digest spot...