Word: segments
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Three weeks ago, the controversy came to a quick-and surprisingly muted-conclusion. NBC agreed to devote a 15-minute segment of the Today Show this week to an interview with A.M.A...
Last week, when the first segment of the two was shown, at least 39 out of 198 local CBS affiliates-including stations in Milwaukee, New Orleans, Indianapolis, Salt Lake City and Seattle -dropped the program. Out of six half-minute commercial spots available during the first show, none were sold...
...first show, Quinn followed a report on child labor among migrant workers with this comment: "I can remember when my mother and father wanted me to clean my room-I thought that was child labor." After a segment about Chesapeake Bay's contaminated clams, she recalled covering a crab derby in Maryland. As the week went on Quinn lapsed less frequently into such limpness; she laughed more easily and appeared to gain confidence. Future weeks may bring further improvement. Surprisingly, none of the first five shows capitalized on Quinn's talent for interviews...
With that, everyone sat down around a coffee table to watch the Watergate segment of the news. Finally Edmisten said, "Well, look, I guess we ought to transact our business." He presented the committee's two subpoenas. Garment laboriously read the documents, then passed them to Wright, who also read them. Finally, as Edmisten and the others shook hands to go, Wright asked: "You don't happen to have one of those paperback Constitutions that Sam Ervin uses all the time, do you?" He was referring to the blue-covered Constitutions that Ervin passes out to constituents. Edmisten...
Weicker did some self-righteous dissociation of himself and the Republican party from the bugging, burglary and other illicit campaign activities conducted by a segment of that party. Yet he is afraid to set out on his own. He is still a captive, rather than a leader, in the Republican party...