Word: schieffer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...flattered to help the head cheerleader with her homework but is flustered by her answers. After weeks of rumors, Kurtis left the show last week; though a contract has not been signed yet, he likely will return to CBS-owned WBBM-TV in Chicago. Veteran CBS Reporter Bob Schieffer will join George until a new co-host is named, probably in the early fall...
...most salutary effect of the debate will most likely be to rid the media of its nagging preoccupation with the perceived Democratic malaise. Mondale's fiesty performance plays right into the pundits' vested interest--lamentable as it might be--making this thing a horse race. Watching Bob Schieffer and Lesley Stahl gush on post-debate Monday was the visual equivalent of watching a Mondale press conference, and one reason is clear. After dwelling for two months on Mondale's missteps and Reagan's opportunistic new patriotism, the fourth estate is bored. The press (us included doesn't want 25 point...
...hard to see why anyone would want to work on any of the three shows. Survivors of those predawn wake-up calls and truncated social lives report strange goings-on in their heads and stomachs. "People aren't supposed to live those kinds of hours," says Schieffer, who had to rise between 2 and 3 a.m. for 20 months. "I woke up one afternoon with a buzz in my head and realized that I had been having it for two years. Then I knew it was time for me to do something different...
...cannot talk at all. Brokaw also recalls with a shudder .ininterview with an Italian film director who suddenly froze and reverted to his native tongue. Brokaw had, as usual, done his homework and answered his own questions while the film director nodded "Si, si, si. "CBS'S Schieffer had a some what similar experience. He was interviewing a Soviet emigree who suddenly began arguing with her translator. For three minutes the two argued in Russian until the matter was resolved...
...flashing the latest numbers on the pres1 idential race and various other contests. Tight races and those in which CBS has picked a winner will show up with brighter intensity on these screens. Each of the four regional correspondents with him -Dan Rather, Harry Reasoner, Lesley Stahl and Bob Schieffer-will have two computer readout screens and a small data-processing unit...