Word: scooped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Schorr receives few thanks for what he does. "When he gets something," says a CBS colleague, "people don't come around and say, 'Great job, Dan,' as they might do for others around here. They say, 'Oh Jesus, Schorr's got another scoop. How do you think he did it?' " Which may explain why Schorr still sees himself as a gritty print reporter in an electronic jungle: "I'm just a refugee from newspaper work with a few tricks, wandering around in a TV world where there aren't many people doing...
Baked Potato. Made on a shoestring budget that does not seem to have caused anyone much difficulty, Death Race 2000 is a jaunty, funny, bemusedly tense little action picture. It was obviously intended to scoop Rollerball, a more costly and similar science-fiction enterprise (TIME, July 7) and it commits its petty larceny briskly and efficiently, with none of Rollerball's thundering pretension. David Carradine, late of TV's Kung Fu, appears as the champion racer Frankenstein. Various parts of his body have been smashed, burned or discarded during his racing career, and he now appears...
...expert for the Associated Press during World War II, Beatty accurately predicted both Hitler's assault on Russia and the successful Soviet resistance. Later, he reported Roosevelt's choice of Harry Truman as his 1944 running mate before even Tru- man knew about it. But his biggest scoop was never broadcast: sailing home from the 1945 Potsdam Conference on a naval vessel with Truman, Beatty guessed that an atomic bomb was to be dropped on Hiroshima when Truman interrupted a poker game to confer with an aide and point to the city on a map. Beatty commented, "There...
RUSS MONITOR U.S. PHONES, blared the Chicago Tribune last week, head lining its scoop that the Soviet Union has been listening in on domestic telephone conversations, no doubt including those of Government, business and military leaders. Up to 70% of U.S. phone calls are carried by microwave, and the Soviets have set up parabolic receivers on their Molynia communications satellites in the skies over the U.S. and on the ground to intercept and record the microwave transmissions. All this should come as little sur prise, since the U.S. and U.S.S.R. have engaged in such mutual electronic spookery for years...
...There is a growing skepticism in Europe about détente. It is viewed from two vantage points. One is almost emotional and psychological, caused by confusion about priorities for defense and security. The second one is reflected in the attitude of people like Scoop Jackson. The thesis of their attack is that détente is a one-way street, we are providing technological and economic advantages to the Soviet Union and we aren't receiving reciprocal benefits...