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As the networks recognize, the stakes are impalpable but high. Thus when Chet Huntley and David Brinkley scored for NBC in 1960, NBC magically swept past CBS to become the top network in most other respects as well. This year. Huntley and Brinkley were again perched on their high platform...
Open Intercom. That fairly well symbolized the trouble with NBC this year. The network's "Dewline" tabulation-a system that stationed NBC stringers in hundreds of voting districts-was swift and often ahead of the competition. At 7:35 p.m., for instance, NBC had 25% of the Connecticut senatorial...
CBS was the most interesting. Anchorman Walter Cronkite never cronked better, their Precinct Profile Analysis matched NBC's Dewline, and there was an easygoing rapport in the air as Cronkite nonchalantly tossed the ball to Eric Sevareid, Harry Reasoner, David Schoenbrun or Charles Collingwood. ABC hugely improved its coverage...
Rendezvous. Gemini's primary purpose is to practice rendezvous in earth orbit, a job of navigation and maneuver that will be controlled largely by ground-based computers. Only after the Gemini capsule and its target satellite have come within sight or radar range of each other will the pilot...
Controlling the Gemini during re-entry and gliding it through the lower atmosphere to a proper landing place are certainly jobs for a man with experience in winged aircraft, but the rest of the flight will call for very different skills. One of the men on board will have to...