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...picket line outside the CBS Broadcast Center in Manhattan got an injection of star power last Monday morning. A band of network heavyweights, including Dan Rather, Ed Bradley and Diane Sawyer, showed up to support striking members of the Writers Guild, who walked out two weeks ago over issues of job security. The featured speaker, however, was a less well known correspondent named Ike Pappas, whose current celebrity derives from the fact that he has just lost his job. "I feel very poorly for the people who have to get up every morning and pretend to work for CBS News...
...load. A network correspondent must lead a safari of a producer and camera and sound technicians. Each network spends up to $10 million a year to maintain Washington offices, but even the smallest bureau can run up a $500,000 annual tab. CBS spends nearly as much on Diane Sawyer's $1.2 million contract as on the three bureaus it will be closing down -- Warsaw, Bangkok and Seattle. But in a business where personalities win ratings and ratings bring profits, Sawyer wins in a walk...
Other winners included number seven, Fern ward, and number three, Marianna Chilton, who scored an exciting 15-13, 4-15, 15-12, 6-15, 15-11 win against Princeton's Ann Sawyer to give Harvard its fifth and deciding triumph...
...tracked a man contending for a lifetime with self-destructive impulses. With Reagan, he finds a subject wholly at peace with his past. Whatever is unpleasant is simply ignored, forgotten or invented. Reagan, for example, fondly remembers his Illinois childhood as "one of those rare Huck Finn-Tom Sawyer idylls." Wills, reared in the Midwest himself, knows the dark side of Twainiana, and he finds it in Tampico, Ill., one month after the Reagan family's arrival. HANG AND BURN THREE NEGROES read the headlines of the village paper. ROPE BREAKS PRECIPITATING VICTIM INTO BURNING EMBERS OF PYRE. So much...
...Biochemical Sciences Bert Valle was the highest paid University academic with a total salary of $140,080 in the fiscal year ending June 30, 1985. Vallee just edged out his boss, Medical School Dean Daniel C. Tosteson '42-'44, who took home $137,193. John R. Brooks '40, Sawyer Professor of Surgery and the chief of surgery at the University Health Services, came in third with...