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...Direct from our newsroom in New York-in color-this is the CBS Evening for News, with Arnold Zenker substituting for Walter Cronkite and. . ." Arnold Zenker? Across the U.S. last week, televiewers gawked curiously at the unfamiliar faces-balding salesmen, pert secretaries, scrubbed junior executives-telling about "Veet Nom," "Cheeze Juftif Warren," "cloddy skies" and "mosterly easterly winds." All, like 28-year-old Arnold Zenker, manager of program administration for CBS, were filling in-and sometimes falling apart-for regular newscasters as the result of a strike called by the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists...
...beats. She was the first reporter to witness and photograph a B-52 raid, and she was first to interview the mayor of Danang after Premier Ky called him a Communist and erroneously announced that he had fled the city. In her tailored sage-green flight suit, the pert, 5-ft. 2-in. redheaded veteran of the Air Force's Okinawa survival course is well known throughout the country. "I've learned to keep quiet and not to argue," she says. She knows that "you can always sweet-talk someone into doing something for you." Perhaps more important...
...Representatives and 20 years as Republican leader, went down to defeat in the G.O.P. primary at the hands of an aggressive woman candidate who based her campaign on the same youth-v.-age attack that Martin had used to win his first election. Hennahaired Mrs. Margaret Heckler, 35, a pert, petite (5 ft. 21 in.) lawyer-housewife from Boston's upper-class suburb of Wellesley, tossed Martin's own 1924 quotes back at him with the comment: "If the country needed vigorous service in those years, certainly today it demands even greater vigor." Peggy Heckler's only...
...only vocal opposition comes from Helen Suzman, the pert, doughty Johannesburg housewife who is the Progressive Party's only member in Parliament. Apartheid is still attacked in the English-language press, which has somehow managed to maintain a tradition of obstinate opposition to the racist pattern, but the attacks are losing their sting. Their readers, impressed by Verwoerd's successful pacification of the country since the Sharpeville massacre of 1960, no longer want to read about the injustices of his methods...
Born. To Sylvie Vartan, 22, France's pert yé-yé girl, and Johnny Hallyday, 23, the French Elvis Presley: their first child, a son; in Boulogne-Billancourt, a Paris suburb...