Word: sauter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Wider and plusher than standard airline seats, TWA's lounger has a little padded footrest and reclines up to 40 degrees. Says its developer, TWA Industrial Designer Daniel Sauter: "It's a kind of mixture between a barber seat and a La-Z-Boy chair." The design redistributes weight to the legs and back, putting less of it on the buttocks. TWA expects that its lounger will keep it flying high in transatlantic business, where it now leads all other airlines. Says Jesse Liebman, a TWA vice president: "Passengers vote with their feet." With other parts of their anatomy...
Minutes later at the Dorset Hotel, several blocks northwest, CBS Executive Vice President Van Gordon Sauter arrived for his own press conference, pipe in mouth and bow tie flopping, to tell a similar number of reporters and photographers that the network also claimed victory. CBS had spent several million dollars defending itself, conducted an internal investigation that uncovered substantial violations of its own procedures, and endured widespread critical judgment that its treatment of Westmoreland had been one- sided. But Sauter asserted that the Jan. 23, 1982, documentary, The Uncounted Enemy: A Vietnam Deception, had been vindicated. Said he: "Nothing...
...Guide article prompted Sauter, then president of CBS News and now its corporate overseer, to order an investigation by Senior Producer Burton Benjamin. Benjamin sternly criticized the methods of the show's producer, George Crile, but did not address most questions about substance. CBS announced that it "stood by the broadcast," and Westmoreland condemned that stance as a "whitewash." Although he had been counseled by former colleagues not to sue because a public figure was unlikely to win a libel trial, Westmoreland accepted the offer of Capital Legal Foundation to represent him; much of the $2 million cost...
Elisabeth Sauter-Frey Zurich...
...much of a change. Jennings has been anchoring ABC's show for two months, and Brokaw has been NBC's co-anchor (with the ousted Roger Mudd) for more than a year. Rather has been in place since March 1981. CBS News President Van Gordon Sauter cautioned, "There will be a lot of viewer sampling, and we will not know the outcome for a couple of months...