Word: commandeered
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Though deeper in correspondents and smarter in production during the last 18 months, the ABC evening news has never been able to command more than about 20% of the three-network audience. All that was missing, ABC News President Elmer Lower concluded, was what he called a "box office value" anchor man. A national survey commissioned from an audience-research firm showed that CBS's Walter Cronkite was America's favorite; No. 2 was not NBC's David Brinkley or Chet Huntley (he was still around then) or even Reynolds' fellow commentator, Howard K. Smith...
...Yovvy is a shy man, and he is not completely poised. He lacks the command presence to reach out and touch people, and he gets flustered when he can't understand people and people can't understand him. But he's an honest man, and I think that should be prized. There's too much two-facedness in big-time football. Athletes get used a lot, but they don't get used here...
Even more than the businesses, the United States military makes its presence felt. There are nine military bases in Puerto Rico occupying about 13 per cent of the land, among this some of the best arable land and some of the best harbors. Installations include a Strategic Air Command base, a Green Beret training camp, an atomic submarine base, and an atomic arsenal...
...unusual for next-door neighbors to be blood relatives. Second, perhaps because of the close family units, the East Cambridge neighborhood is quiet, with few people in the street. "Kids stay inside doing their homework and the father sits at the head of the table like a boss in command," Vellucci said. "The only pot these kids fool around with is a pot of spaghetti...
...later they announced: "It appears that the Americal Division may have used some Orange herbicide since the suspension was put into effect. An investigation is under way to determine all facts related to this apparent violation." Last week the Army went further. A terse statement released by the U.S. Command in Viet Nam said that "a preliminary investigation . . . has determined that Agent Orange was used on several occasions in May, July and August by elements of the Americal Division in violation of existing instructions. During this period, a total of approximately 100 drums of 55 gallons each was dispensed...