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...Manhattan skyline. Brokaw, 40, has something of the manner of a friendly corporate lawyer. The prim and manicured Pauley, 30, could easily be his law school trainee, so efficient does she seem. Fortunately, what they lack in sparkle is made up for by Today's new weatherman, Willard Scott, 46, a good old Virginia boy who has a more engaging grin than anyone else has had since Arthur Godfrey left TV 21 years...
...best guess for the program's recent rise in the ratings, however, is that it has finally found a replacement for J. Fred Muggs: Weatherman Willard Scott. "Willard is the first break the show has had in a long time," says one Today veteran. "He sincerely loves people and that shows through. He may be corny, but he makes the show personal by touching people...
...affair. It was understood that Nixon would help two former agency officials at their trial for authorizing Weatherman-related break-ins by testifying on their behalf. Now his participation is in doubt. Their case is going well, and they may not need help. Besides, the former President's lawyers feel an appearance would make it difficult to stave off future requests to bear witness...
...that Wilkerson would be allowed to plead guilty to lesser charges. Meanwhile, ironically, three former top FBI officials, including onetime Acting Director L. Patrick Gray, are awaiting trial on charges of having the agency illegally tap the phones and break into the homes of friends and relatives of fugitive Weatherman members...
...Weatherman faction took its name from a line in a Bob Dylan song: "You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows." Cathy Wilkerson seemed oblivious last week to the lesson of another Dylan song: "The times they are a-changin...