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...briefed on the contents by White House advisers so that they were not speaking entirely off the cuff in their critiques. Besides, the President's right (purely customary) to use television whenever he chooses is an extremely powerful weapon-some think too powerful. Says CBS's Eric Sevareid: "I think the networks should reconsider having all three of the major networks carrying a presidential speech at the same time live. Perhaps that is a kind of monopoly position given to a political leader that he ought not have." Some argue that a President, controlling the U.S. Government...
...NEWS HOUR (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). In cities with elections, results will be reported. Other cities will see "A Conversation with Dean Acheson - Part 2," with CBS News Correspondent Eric Sevareid...
...drops from him simply and directly like a stone to the ground." He adds that "people talk faster than they listen, and you have to give them time to hear what you've said. Clever phrases make slow listening." Andy contends that his veteran colleague Eric Sevareid has discovered that fact only in the past five years and has "improved immeasurably since...
Other lawyers boggled at the complicated-and time-consuming-procedures outlined in ten pages of instructions. Someone in the department calculated that if the study were to last a year, it would cost Justice 66,000 man-hours, or $534,000. CBS Commentator Eric Sevareid was amused by a time-sheet category called "de minimis time," which is supposed to include all minor interruptions. "Computers read Latin already," quipped Sevareid, who described Kleindienst as "a new Lochinvar" riding a computer instead of a white horse and trying to rescue the Government from inefficiency-a goal that has eluded many others...
...NEWS CORRESPONDENTS REPORT: PART 2 (CBS, 4:30-5:30 p.m.). Walter Cronkite moderates as Eric Sevareid, Roger Mudd, Mike Wallace, Dan Rather, Daniel Schorr and John Laurence report on the U.S. in 1968 and the prospects...