Word: processed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...used to be said that ABC was the last to arrive at the scene and the first to leave), now spends good money to get good people. Arledge hired Richard Wald (once head of NBC News) to run his news operation, a job that Wald defines as "calming the process down." Salant concedes that ABC is "a good news organization now," though he still ridicules those three scattered anchormen: "Having somebody in London, 3,000 miles less far from a story, is hardly having him at the scene...
...plot about Redgrave's troubled young son, some muddled digressions about British-American cultural conflicts, and a grueling military race riot. Besides wasting time, these intrusions are pretentious; the director seems to be trying to convince himself that Yanks is something more than a tearjerker. In the process, he insults the audience. Director Schlesinger should not be ashamed to have made Yanks, any more than viewers should be embarrassed to respond to its modest pleasures...
...little bit haywire. Both the Executive and Legislative branches have overreacted to the belated discovery of a Soviet combat brigade in Cuba and have severely jeopardized rational consideration of the SALT II treaty. The events of the past four weeks provide a case study in the breakdown of constitutional process whereby the Administration and Congress are supposed to be partners in statesmanship...
...election of Frank Church was an issue. Cuba's predatory military probably will continue to be a problem for a long time to come - until the U.S. recovers some measure of leverage on Cuba, possibly by restoring trade and diplomatic relations and thereby beginning the difficult process of prying Cuba out of the Soviet bear...
...some sentiment among White House political operatives to exploit them as an illustration of the machinations of our predecessors and the difficulties we inherited. But such an attitude seemed to me against the public interest: our system of government would surely lose all trust if each President used the process of declassification to smear his predecessors...