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...Cronin, in collaboration with Noel Boaz, professor of anthropology at New York University. Christopher B. Stringer, professor of paleontology at the British Museum, and Yoel Rak, professor of anatoms and anthropology at Tel Aviv University, has contended that, at least for human evolution, fossil records do in fact indicate gradual evolution...
Putting the documentary together cost roughly $1 million and took nine months; Executive Producer Howard Stringer at one point or another brought in some 80 CBS News people. Camera crews roamed from the Egyptian desert to Moscow; correspondents interviewed everyone from Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger to a raw recruit getting his flowing locks shorn into a G.I. cut (asked why he had joined the Army, he replied laconically, "Can't find no jobs"). Walter Cronkite, in his first reportorial appearance since retiring as anchorman of the CBS Evening News, journeyed to Moscow and brought back some Soviet...
There were some disappointments. CBS could not get interviews with any of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, and former President Jimmy Carter canceled an appointment after a camera crew had arrived in Plains, Ga. "The reason given," says Stringer, "was that his advisers decided this was an 'inappropriate forum.' " Cronkite found the Soviets so uninformative that he was reduced to interviewing Alexander Bovin, a journalist who is said to be a speechwriter for Leonid Brezhnev, and exploring Moscow's motives by taping a long bull session with Western correspondents...
...villain lurking in the shadows, a Yale defender stands ready to disrupt any Harvard offensive thrust. He goes by the menacing name of Keven Czinger, and he plays middle guard for the Elis. A three-year varsity starter, Czinger will play opposite sophomore Harvard center John Francis, a fourth-stringer before injuries felled the Crimson's three top men at the position. Francis has played admirably, but Czinger might prove too tough. The absence of Yale's leading tackler, linebacker Jeff Roher, who broke an ankle two7CrimsonNevin I. ShalitHarvard captain and defensive tackle CHUCK DURST [72] and middle guard TONY...
...streets one week before election day, there are as many "For Rent" and "For Sale" signs in front of the houses as there are pickets pushing "Stringer for Prosecutor" and "Mertz for Sheriff." In the past couple of years, almost one-third of the city's 1500 real estate agents have decided not to renew their licenses. Houses sell for $50,000 to $65,000; people working fulltime are making $20,000 at Ford, $17,500 at U.S. Steel. Even the U.S. Armed Forces has been forced to lease its Broadway recruiting center to the local Republican backers...