Word: witteman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fling a cliché as well as the next fan. Dave Frost, he says, is "a premier pitcher," and Jim Barr "a wily veteran." Nixon sees a low-scoring playoff series between California and Baltimore, with the Angels winning in five games. As he told TIME Correspondent Paul Witteman: "Man for man, down the lineup, I believe the Angels can match them...
Reported TIME Correspondent Paul Witteman from Sanandaj: "At Ghanzeh Hospital a man sat holding the severed head of his three-year-old daughter, who along with her four brothers and sisters was killed when a mortar round dropped into the yard where they were playing. As doctors worked in a makeshift operating room on the floor of the hospital corridor, flights of helicopters fluttered overhead, ferrying army reinforcements to the garrison from Kermanshah, an hour to the south. The fighting took a vicious turn the next day when the army moved tanks to the city center. Kurdish guerrillas dashed from...
Four months after being ousted as president of Ford Motor Co., and six days after he had stunned the auto world by taking the same post at troubled Chrysler Corp., Lee Iacocca, 54, sat down with TIME Correspondents Barrett Seaman and Paul Witteman to muse about his new job and his industry. Iacocca's conversation is pure stream of consciousness, leaping from topic to topic at machine-gun speed; it is also refreshingly blunt and unencumbered by modesty. Excerpts: ON WHY HE CHOSE HIS NEW EMPLOYER: I had many offers to be chief executive of big [nonauto] companies...
Correspondent Paul Witteman boned up for his Eastwood interviews by seeing three of the actor-director's movies (The Gauntlet, The Outlaw Josie Wales, Dirty Harry) at one sitting. "An Eastwood triple feature," the star remarked kindly when he heard about it. "After that you'll need a tin cup and a white cane." In his newest film, The Gauntlet, Eastwood races by car, motorcycle, freight train and bus to bring a witness against the Mob to the trial on time. But only at the wheel, Witteman found, does the otherwise quiet and domestic Eastwood, who does...
Conditions outside the cells in the courthouses were almost as grim. From criminal court in Brooklyn, TIME'S Paul Witteman reported: "The smell of vomit permeated the lobby. There were puddles of urine on the floor. In one corner, a Hispanic woman shrieked uncontrollably. Court officers administered oxygen to two women who had been felled by the heat and the strain of not knowing what had happened to relatives locked up in the cells. Police broke up a group of people being interviewed by a radio reporter. In the midst of the shouting and shoving, one man was arrested...