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Some news veterans blame the blunders on competition. "Making the first call is all a question of network ego," says Martin Plissner, former executive political director of CBS News. "It's a question of whose is bigger." Another problem is noncompetition. Networks share VNS data and then hire analysts, who race to crunch the same numbers. Competing operations might have more incentive to avoid errors--or at least wouldn't multiply them...
...Some news veterans blame the blunders on competition. "Making the first call is all a question of network ego," says Martin Plissner, former executive political director of CBS News. "It's a question of whose is bigger." Another problem is noncompetition. Networks share VNS data and then hire analysts, who race to crunch the same numbers. Competing operations might have more incentive to avoid errors - or at least wouldn't multiply them...
Joining him on the first ten were attackman Rick Hudner, captain last year, and Dick Post, midfielder, also a 1951 graduate. Goalie Syd Clark earned a berth on the second team, while Fred Coburn. Dave Waring, and Bill Plissner received honorable mention. All were graduated in June, an indication of the tremendous task which Munro faces...
Seven of the attackmen are graduating seniors. They accumulated 163 points between them. VARSITY LACROSSE (Seniors in Capitals) G. A. T. HUDNER 18 46 64 Baldwin 15 15 30 KELLY 23 6 29 PLISSNER 9 18 27 Yost 17 5 22 Hucbsch 14 3 17 WARING 13 4 17 POST 14 2 16 Brooke 9 0 9 GRAHAM 4 1 5 THAYER 4 1 5 Julian 1 2 3 Grant 2 1 3 Sawyer 1 0 1 Wood 1 0 1 Lynch 0 1 1 -- -- -- Totals...
HARVARD: Attack--Plissner, Yost, and Hudner (C); Midfields--Post, Waring, and Huebsch; Graham, Brooke, and Lynch; Julian, Wood, and Thayer; Defense--Byrne, Coburn, Spence or Maronl; Goal--Clark...