Word: slights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Character Sketches. Despite the ratings, the qualitative difference between NBC and CBS was actually quite slight. The convention, after all, was fully and exhaustively visible on all three networks. In the anchor booth, CBS tried a new vertical arrangement in contrast to the horizontal give-and-take of Huntley and Brinkley. CBS's congenial Walter Cronkite carried all the burden of coordinating CBS's coverage, while Eric Sevareid would appear every so often as a kind of deus ex machina and deliver auroral analyses uninhibited by routine details, or a shaft of wit, as when he recalled...
...most valuable angle-shots, the Army's mapmen visited observatories in the U.S. and Europe, collected more than 4,000 pictures dating as far back as 1890 and showing the moon at different stages of wobble. By intricate calculation they were able to deduce lunar elevations from slight differences in matched pairs of photographs. Only a few years ago the job would have taken too long to be practical, but the Army's Honeywell computer raced headlong through thousands of bristling equations. Gradually the map of the moon's visible disk, which has just about the same...
Rolleston's prospects of winning seem slight. For one thing, he is fighting a law that got the most painstaking constitutional examination by a lawyer-dominated Congress sworn to uphold the Constitution just as fervently as the Supreme Court. What is nonetheless admirable is Rolleston's decision to test the law in court rather than to break it simply because he dislikes it. If his action sets a new tone for Southern resistance, it is good news...
Before a crowd of 5000 Harvard began the race stroking at 33 and gained an early deck length on Vesper, rowing at 32. California at 44 was in third and Yale followed at 37. At 500 meters Harvard had raised the stroke to 36 and retained a slight lead over Vesper, stroking at a fast...
...whose every movement is classic, whose Western drawl is definitive, who can mug and joke, yodel and moan, tell a tall tale ("I don't believe in rebearsin' for recordings: and I never listened to them afterwards") so well that he has to explain that it was a slight fib after...