Word: program
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Secretary Jody Powell snapped last week. But there was no way of avoiding the contrasting images. On the Mississippi, Jimmy Carter drifted downstream in an imitation 19th century steamboat, waving, dancing and playing a calliope, stepping ashore periodically to shake hands, dandle babies and try to sell his energy program. Back east his top foreign policy aides were engaged in public disputes over who was in charge of U.S. policy in the Middle East and over what that policy should be. The disputes set off dangerous waves. Leaders of black and Jewish organizations, still at odds over the resignation...
...answer to television's Wheel of Fortune or $20,000 Pyramid. And no, Susan Stamberg is not out to make a deal, or even to see if the price is right. She is co-host of All Things Considered, surely the most literate, trenchant and entertaining news program on radio. Gimme Shelter! was typical of the show: an imaginative way of commenting on the current scene, in this case, federal retirement tax policy...
...each weekday and an hour on Saturdays and Sundays (at 5 p.m. in most places), All Things Considered's bouillabaisse of hard news, light features and background reports is heard on 200 noncommercial stations. The show is the flagship program of National Public Radio, the aural counterpart of TV's Public Broadcasting Service. It is also the ear-throb of legions of listeners-2 million flip the dial to it at least one day a week, and some 150 send mash notes weekly...
...Considered is now as smooth as a game show, with catchy electronic music between segments and inventive sound effects. But what really holds the show together is the cohosts: Stamberg, 40, former manager of Washington's public station WAMU, who signed on as a tape editor at the program's inception in 1971; and Bob Edwards, 32, who arrived in 1974 after working as a writer and newsreader at WTOP, Washington's all-news commercial station. Stamberg is the key to the program's ingratiating charm. In interviews she is confiding and insouciant, first disarming...
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