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...narrates special programs and often substitutes, as he did again last week, for Cronkite on the network's flagship early-evening newscast. This season, Reasoner has been a mainstay on 60 Minutes, a Tuesday-night television newsmagazine that ap pears every other week and on which he alternates quarter-hour features with Mike Wallace. This week rival NBC is paying it the supreme compliment - imitation at twice the length - by launching a two-hour monthly magazine of its own called First Tuesday...
...palace, his Ministers wore the grim visages of men preparing to enter combat. What had been De Gaulle's message? asked newsmen. "Vigor," replied a Minister. "Vigor." Inside, in clipped, angry phrases, De Gaulle was shouting into a tape recorder his speech to the nalion. Within a quarter-hour, his words were relayed throughout France...
...needs" children-those who are older, have handicaps or come from racial minority groups-are so hard to place that the Los Angeles County Department of Adoptions has taken to broadcasting their availability on commercial TV. Since October, the department has shown 64 such children on a once-weekly quarter-hour segment of Ben Hunter's Matinee, a program of old movies interspersed with talk. Result: up to 35 phone calls immediately following each show and 34 of the children adopted, including a two-year-old boy with eye trouble, a one-year-old girl with club feet...
...museum's 1,425-man staff. Shoved into windowless cubbyholes for offices, they keep electric fans running year-round to circulate the air. One darkroom, a converted closet, is so small that Chief Printer Anthony Allen "won't let anyone stay in there more than a quarter-hour." Corrugated iron roofing stift hides crumbling wreckage untouched since Nazi bombardiers blitzed London 27 years ago. To the delight of its readers, the Times recently discovered that "a race of wild cats" lives, loves and dies in the basement ventilating shafts...
Blood & Money. The heaviest support came, naturally, from the 5,720,000 American Jews. At a luncheon meeting in New York's Waldorf-Astoria on the day the fighting started, $1,000,000 a minute was pledged during one quarter-hour. That night in Chicago, another $2.5 million was raised. Next night in Atlanta, $1.1 million more was forthcoming. The pace was so fast that officials often had no idea how much they had collected. In New York, where the United Jewish Appeal set up an Israel Emergency Fund, Executive Vice President Herbert Friedman jotted down a flood...