Word: manned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...instance, tracking down the fugitive Cleaver in Algeria. Preparing for an interview with Judge Clement Haynsworth last month, he immersed himself for eight hours in Senate hearings transcripts, court decisions and CBS morgue clips. Wallace usually opens his interviews with the soft questions. "You want to put a man at ease," he says. "You waste a few, like a baseball pitcher." He talked to Cleaver for half an hour to get the five minutes that were on the air. Once the interview is rolling, Wallace puts short, rapid questions and knows when to slip in a prodding...
...Mike is best remembered, though, as the demolition man of TV's explosive Night Beat interview show. It worked fine as a local New York program but became hypersensational when it went network on ABC. Wallace-in the one tape in his whole career that he would like to erase-egged Mobster Mickey Cohen into calling a police officer a "sadistic degenerate" and an "alcoholic." Libel suits for $3,000,000 followed; they were settled for much less, but within a year the series was dumped. Wallace became a sort of Sonny Listen of broadcasting: the mean...
...Wallace landed a job with CBS News. Colleagues were leary of a man who had come over from the entertainment side, but he soon won his journalistic spurs. At age 49, Mike did a tour in Viet Nam. At the 1968 Democratic Convention, he took a sock on the jaw from a Chicago police inspector but kept his feet. In the shop, too, Wallace is a pile-driving competitor. He fills almost two-thirds of the air time on 60 Minutes but maintains a fond, prank-playing friendship with Co-Editor Reasoner. Mike gets along well with junior associates...
...owner of a Manhattan townhouse, he lives conservatively for a man who earns more than $100,000. In his spare time, he reads (lately Galbraith's Ambassador's Journal and Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich), watches news and sports on TV ("85% of the rest is junk"). Also, "I talk to my wife"-Lorraine Perigord, his third, an accomplished painter whom he married in 1955. Mike has a son by his first marriage, Chris, 22, who was a top reporter at the Harvard University radio station but went into newspapering...
...Woroner claims that only he, his editor and his sound man know which one the computer decided was right. Bonded couriers from the Joyce Expediting Co. will deliver the film, and projectionists will not get it until 30 minutes before time to roll (10 p.m. E.S.T.). At the end, Woroner's messengers will pick up the reels and bring them back to his South Miami studio. There, he claims, he will keep the master print and destroy all the copies-except for one. It, naturally, will be submitted to the Library of Congress...