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Landslide. Yes, landslide-stunning, startling, astounding, beyond the wildest dreams and nightmares of the contending camps, beyond the furthest ken of the armies of pollsters, pundits and political professionals. After all the thousands of miles, the millions of words and dollars, the campaign that in newspapers across the land on the very morning of Election Day was still headlined TOO CLOSE TO CALL turned out to be a landslide. Half the election-watching parties in the nation were over before the guests arrived. The ponderous apparatus of the television networks' Election Night coverage had scarcely...
...least one student thinks Miller's work on TV misrepresents the law. "I think it's close to disgraceful," says second-year student Ken Harmon, who nevertheless considers Miller one of the school's best professors. "It also degrades what other professors are doing." Harmon continues. "Yes, law should be popularized, but it's a matter of taste. The television medium lends itself to such great generalizations. "Miller's Court" makes law look like a Roman circus," he explains. A journalist with a legal training could do the same job as Miller, Harmon says, adding. "You don't need...
...Sovereign Power of the United States rests with its People. Ken Tomkinson
...freelancers and such sources of footage as the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and the British Visnews syndicate. But the show's producers still rely heavily on studio interviews, which TV executives term "talking heads." For some stories that approach is fitting. Says NewsHour's Denver-based producer Ken Davis, a transplant from CBS: "The Korean jet story is perfect for us: the networks cannot get cameras in, and what is needed is analysis...
...Antonio Missions National Historical Park, whose ornate bell towers rise like baroque sand castles out of the Texas plain, has been updating and supplementing drawings made in 1935 and 1936. "The purpose of the original survey was to capture the missions as they existed then," says Ken Anderson, HABS' principal architect, who flew from Washington, D.C., to work with Schlinke, Texas Tech Professor John White and William Peoples, a recent graduate of California Polytechnic. "This follow-up survey teaches us how rapidly erosion takes place and how soon something will have to be done...