Word: handed
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...appreciates, and is thought by some at the network to appear a bit too stolid on the screen. Still, Mudd was so sure he had the job that he recently refused to fill in one week for Cronkite; he wanted to go skiing instead. "I think he overestimated his hand," says one colleague. Said Mudd, who may well leave the network: "The management of CBS and CBS News has made its decision on Walter Cronkite's successor, according to its current values and standards. From the beginning, I have regarded myself as a news reporter, not as a newsmaker...
...producer-directors from the other networks. CBS is hardest hit, losing 17 to the Arledge recruiting drive, including Correspondents Hughes Rudd, John Laurence, Barry Serafin and Sylvia Chase, as well as off-camera stars like Richard Kaplan, a talented producer with the Cronkite team. Admits one CBS hand: "We're hemorrhaging...
...broadcast was good, but Max Robinson, who is subbing for Reynolds in Washington tonight, says that he misread his opening. Though nobody else had noticed, he forgot to say the word "near," as in "the framework of a plan to free the hostages is in place or near at hand." The mistake is not very important, but Robinson nonetheless goes live for the first few seconds of the third show to rectify the error...
...network executives bidding for his services: "I'd like to lead, and I want to be the best reporter of my time." Rather does not claim to be there yet, but when he takes over for Walter Cronkite next year, an immense audience will be on hand to watch...
...sort of savings account that one can live in. The result, he said, is that people have been increasingly willing to dip into their nest eggs or go into debt to support their living standards. Joseph Pechman of Washington's Brookings Institution, on the other hand, suggested that much of the shopping splurge has been attributable to a consumer compulsion to buy now before prices shoot into orbit. Yet Brookings Economist Arthur Okun noted that considerable spending has been for goods like furniture and clothing, which have been rising in price far more slowly than other consumer items...