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Following is a transcript of the show. The questioners are Lawrence Spivak and Sidney Lazard of NBC, Haynes Johnson of the Washington Star, and Thomas Winship of the Boston Globe. The program's moderator was Edwin Newman...
...myriad imitators of television's Meet The Press were to be given a generic name, they might well be called Spivaks (after Lawrence, the host, of course). This year yet another species of the genus Spivak - the Novak, it might be labeled - was launched on 15 Metromedia TV and radio stations and eight public-TV channels. Titled The Evans-Novak Report, the program is run by a regular two-man press panel, Columnists Rowland Evans and Robert Novak. Unlike most of the other spin-offs from Meet The Press, it does offer at least one new wrinkle: during...
Huntley and Brinkley are off the air, their show abruptly shelved. Lawrence Spivak, Mike Wallace and Curt Gowdy are fired outright. Edwin Newman is still on the payroll but restricted to covering baseball. Howard K. Smith has been forcibly retired, and Eric Sevareid has been rusticated to the local sta tion in Keokuk. In their place are unknown third-stringers, providing bland, cursory newscasts culled from the wire services. Translated from the French, that is the situation U.S. televiewers would face this week...
...makeup included whole paragraphs of boldface type on many pages, along with a generous sup ply of pictures and color comics. Almost all the national and international news was left to the wire services, and there was the usual liberal-conservative mix of columnists: Howard K. Smith and Robert Spivak, Barry Goldwater and Doris Fleeson. The staffers concentrated on covering such local matters as supermarket boycotts and the pants-suit rage...
...federal aid to parochial schools Lodge has become slightly more candid since March when an exasperated Lawrence E. Spivak declared on Meet The Press. "That is to say the Catholic vote in Massachusetts is still much too strong for an unevasive answer Mr. Lodge?" Lodge now thinks federal aid would be Constitutional for science language, and physical education training. In the Senate Lodge would no doubt be a supporter of bipartisanship in foreign policy. While constantly reiterating the need for "power and the will to use it against the Communists," he avoids emotion alism and refuses to recommend a blockade...