Word: roles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...answer to your reporter's question about the TV networks' role in the Sadat-Begin talks: I stated that my perception of ABC's coverage of the story, which while not as dramatic, powerful, extensive or impactful as CBS's, was earlier and in our opinion certainly as decisive in bringing about the meetings. I willingly credited Walter Cronkite with a fantastic presentation and his usual high standard of journalism. I at no time accused him of trying to take credit. I said it was uncharacteristic of CBS News to project itself into a story...
...Prince Saud, felt "his talks with Secretary Vance reinforced his own natural optimism, which he does not wish to exaggerate." Official members of the Vance party came away convinced that the Saudis will continue to support Sadat, and that they gradually will take a more active behind-the-scenes role in bridging the gap between the Arab camps. Nonetheless, Vance felt he could report back to Carter that he had found "real momentum" for peace...
Madigan sees no conflict in his dual role as press critic and confidant to the powerful. "The whole spectrum of reporting today is so violently anti-Establishment that anyone who attempts to set the facts out becomes an apologist," he complains. Madigan also likes to give his colleagues a taste of the same medicine they administer to city hall. "Newsmen tear everyone else apart, but they can't stand criticism themselves," says Madigan, who mails transcripts of his broadcasts to leading Chicago journalists. "I want to rub their noses in it." In a mere 12½ minutes a week...
Success has come easily to Travolta: since he was 16, he has never been turned down for a part. He dropped out of his Englewood high school-a harsher, drug-ridden version of the happy school in Kotter after his second year, and soon landed summer stock roles, a part in an off-Broadway revival of Rain and the first of his 40 TV commercials. The role of Barbarino was a natural for him-"I knew that character from high school," he says-and soon after Roller's Dremiere in 1975 he was receiving 5,000 fan letters...
...Under the Rev. Ralph Peterson, 45, Saint Peter's had become a lively midtown gathering place. Peterson introduced jazz vespers on Sundays, and made the basement into a lunchtime theater where office workers could eat their sandwiches and watch plays. Saint Peter's had found a new role in the city, and the well-named Peterson was loath to move out. Yet the church held the key position on the block. The solution: Citicorp bought the old church for $9 million, demolished it and built in its place a new structure that included a chapel and sanctuary...