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...great losers in the history of U.S. presidential elections, a title he won in 1936 by carrying only two states against F.D.R., Kansas' Alf London, 79, has a rueful understanding of the uncertainties of politics. So when CBS-TV's Eric Sevareid dropped in at his Topeka homestead to talk about the next race, Landon smiled, said simply that he is backing Michigan's Governor George Romney, and added: "Anybody who attempts to predict the election of 1968 is nuts...
Tuesday, November 29 CBS NEWS SPECIAL (CBS, 10-10:30 p.m.). Eric Sevareid conducts "A Conversation with Senator-elect Edward Brooke" of Massachusetts, the first Negro ever elected to the U.S. Senate by popular ballot...
...speech almost a decade ago. Summing up for all those now who make their livings "dealing with producers, directors, business executives, salespeople, sponsors, agents, set designers, accountants and all others in the new, huge superstructure of human beings hovering over the frail product," CBS's Eric Sevareid was hard put to describe the rigors of putting on a news program. "The ultimate sensation," he finally decided, "is the feeling of being bitten to death by ducks...
...NEWS SPECIAL (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Eric Sevareid attempts to explain the Franco-American love-hate relationship from Benjamin Franklin's time to, as he calls it, "the present irritation." "Our Friends, the French" will be represented by four Frenchmen of strong opinions: Jean-Claude Servan-Schreiber, general director of Les Echos, a pro-De Gaulle paper; his cousin Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, general director of L'Express, an anti-De Gaulle magazine; Pierre Gallois, retired air force general and chief exponent of France's independent nuclear striking force; and Jacques Rueff, gold-standard devotee...
...affectionate reminiscence of Adlai Stevenson that appeared in Look last month, CBS Correspondent Eric Sevareid quoted Stevenson as expressing misgivings about aspects of U.S. foreign policy the day before he died in London last summer. Though the late U.N. Ambassador's comments on the subject made up only a fraction of Sevareid's article, Stevenson was consequently pictured in the press as a man in revolt against President Johnson's policy in Viet...