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Loomis has let it be known that he hopes to steer public affairs programming away from "topical" areas and produce in-depth documentaries on crime, welfare, etc. Many inside and outside of the broadcasting business claim Loomis really does not understand what news is in the "topical" sense. News quickly becomes untopical and producing Loomis's lengthy documentaries would require months of lead time and enormous budgets. After recent Administration budget cuts, Loomis hardly will fund the amounts of money required for his type of public affairs shows...
...This year the Committee has been working on problems of Freshman education; next year Kiely wants the focus to be on education in the Houses. Several of the members credit him with having resurrected the CUE this year from an early death-by-inertia. They like his ability to steer them away from proposals that are predictable losers in a faculty vote almost as much as they like his openmindedness. "He's definitely not a great radical innovator, but he clearly wants to get things done," says one CUE undergraduate. "He's an administration man -- not the same kind...
When Fireman Save My Child played New York in 1929 it flopped so badly that a segment of the Harvard Alumni in New York demanded that the Pudding and its show steer clear of that city in the future. But the following year's production was so good that the alumni begged the Pudding to come back. The Pudding, perhaps a bit indignant at the previous year's rough treatment, refused...
Miles from Hanoi, another flyer tried to steer his parachute away from militiamen on the ground. Landing, he pulled out his pistol, but the North Vietnamese disarmed him, yelling, "Hands up! Hands up!" in English. The pilot, in Vietnamese, replied, "Toi xin hang [I surrender]." A third pilot only managed to smear his face with mud before he was captured. All told, the raids added 93 Americans to the list of missing and captured...
...again that the majority of the people in this country are not going to tolerate extremes on either end of the spectrum. The people have shown that this country will continue to be governed on a moderate basis, with forces from both left and right acting in balance to steer America on its proper course...