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...Most of the records in major sports -rushing, slugging and scoring marks once held by such legendary figures as Grange, Ruth and Pettit-have been bested by Tony Dorsett, Henry Aaron and Wilt Chamberlain...
...hour, but the network's affiliate stations killed that idea a month ago. Barbara's bosses are now de-emphasizing the self-help features and reorganizing their correspondents. They are even trying to lure heavyweight reporters from rival networks (one target: NBC's Tom Pettit). Says Walters: "We've got a long climb ahead...
...Temporary Convention Chairman Robert Dole ordered reporters off the floor, while the delegates cheered. CBS Floor Producer Don Hewitt immediately phoned Dole to protest, but television reporters and their bulky equipment were not back clogging the aisles at full strength for nearly an hour. When NBC Reporter Tom Pettit's earphone antenna was banged and bent by an unidentified flying object during a Wednesday-night Ford demonstration, David Brinkley remarked: "You get ten points for hitting a reporter. There have been conventions in the past where you got 20 points...
...Douglas Kiker fought his way to Betty Ford in a dead heat with CBS's Sylvia Chase, but gracefully let her go first. Even NBC'S Pettit, a raging bull at Madison Square Garden last month, was a model of courtliness, standing by patiently while Mudd of CBS beat him to an interview with former Missouri Representative Thomas Curtis. "The kind of abrasiveness that was customary and sometimes necessary in 1968 is out of place now," explained Dan Rather. "We're a little cooler headed...
...delegates and alternates for breathing space on the claustrophobic Madison Square Garden floor (30,000 sq. ft., or about half the size of a football field). "There might be a few ripped trousers and coats. There might be a few bumps and bruises," says NBC'S Pettit. Of course, some kind of action like that may be necessary to keep the nomination of a presidential candidate from being upstaged by Bionic Woman...