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Next to Richard Nixon, the person whose career has been most dramatically affected by the tape recorder is Studs Terkel. Although he earned patchy renown as a Chicago radio-TV personality, Terkel's national prominence came through three books crammed with transcripts of other people's conversations: Division Street: America, Hard Times and Working. The subjects changed with each book, but Terkel's theme did not: I hear America speaking. All the while the most provocative talker was a rumpled man with floppy white hair and an omnipresent cigar-the one who was asking the questions...
...vote and broad discretionary powers to alter the racial makeup of the group, Smith dismissed the idea as "political suicide." He insisted instead on Henry Kissinger's proposal of a balanced black-white council of state operating over a two-year period. The two schemes, Smith told a radio-TV audience last week, were "as different as chalk and cheese." Black African leaders, however, have viewed the Kissinger plan-or at least Smith's interpretation of it-as merely a starting point for negotiation...
...addition to all this, ABC will be aided by CBC's 104 cameras. The Canadian Olympic Radio-TV Organization (ORTO), with a staff of 1,850, will supply video coverage-as many as twelve live signals simultaneously to broadcasters from 70 countries-that will be beamed abroad via three satellites. Says Mason: "We've created a monster-but a friendly...
Grandmaison also works on a freelance basis as a political commentator for WBZ Radio-TV in Boston, a job he said he will relinquish if he runs for Congress...
...bonds. Vesco will not say what else he owns; he is reputed to have invested heavily in industry, agriculture and real estate and to own the tallest office building in the capital city of San José, along with various restaurants, a coffee plantation and interests in newspapers and radio-TV stations. He is known to have sunk more than $2 million into a holding company called San Cristóbal S.A., a chief interest of Former President José ("Pepe") Figueres, a popular figure who is Vesco's leading backer in Costa Rica...