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Ronald Reagan still reads the comic strips and he still eats jelly beans, scooping a dozen into the palm of his left hand, popping them one by one into his mouth with his right hand. Most decisions during his first twelve months involved one-scoop problems. Ready or not, 1982 may be a two-scoop year...
...timely scoop by hastily deciding (on Arledge's orders, at 1 a.m. Saturday) to switch to Gaddafi as guest. In slightly fractured English, Gaddafi scornfully denied that he had sent a killer squad to the U. S. Neither his word nor his record entitles credence, yet in the next hour nobody on the program even mentioned, let alone discussed his denial. Perhaps it was Gaddafi's appearance that was so scary, as he huddled, dressed in collarless brown shirt and engulfed in a blue cape. As his head bobbed upward and backward, his eyes rolling...
Though he fears that anything might shatter Poland's fragile state, severing him permanently from his family and homeland, he wishes to vacation in Poland again soon. But one friend warned, between beers and commercials. "If you go back, [the government] will scoop...
...inquisition and had in return to face their male and female Torquemadas. Adroit in the arts of publicity, Allen chose NBC's Meet the Press-because the questioners are at the other end of the studio and the questioning is orderly and by turns. He brought them a scoop: he was taking an administrative leave from his job because "it's time that this case be aired in a responsible forum." Such a forum no half-hour television program could possibly be. Some of the asperity in the ensuing questions, particularly by NBC'S Andrea Mitchell, probably...
...many editors feel that the Post squandered a dramatic scoop and possibly misled its readers by not revealing that the architect of the Reagan economic plan did not believe in his own program. Says Chicago Sun-Times Publisher James Hoge...