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...being done, a number of other interesting episodes could show up anywhere in the final broadcasts. In one long segment on Viet Nam, Nixon returns to an increasingly favorite subject, Henry Kissinger; especially Kissinger's position on the Christmas bombing of Hanoi in 1972, which was intended to pound the North Vietnamese into acceptance of a cease-fire and peace negotiations. Kissinger was reported by some liberal columnists to have been against the B-52 raids. Nixon says Kissinger never opposed the raids. He says he even called Kissinger the night before the Frost taping session to recheck...
Heidelberger, 60, proprietor of a 40-acre spread called the Musket Ranch and Trading Post, began collecting used tires before World War II. He sold his original hoard for a penny a pound in the wartime rush to find desperately needed rubber supplies. The war ended, but Heidelberger's passion for tires did not. Today, after more than 30 years of relentless collecting, he figures he has between 8 million and 12 million. His tires cover ten acres, rise to a 40-ft. peak and are a local landmark...
...resisted the anti-tire forces on a hunch: "I figured anything worth 10 a pound in 1941 sooner or later would be worth 100 a pound." Heidelberger was wrong. Much to his own-and his neighbors'-surprise, the tires have turned out to be worth much more. An Oklahoma salvage entrepreneur plans to erect a huge shredder at Heidelberger's place; he aims to process the tires to extract oil, added as a rubber-softening agent during manufacture, and steel belting, and to make an oatmeal-like material that can be mixed with hard coal to provide smooth...
Special Officer Thomas Scanlon, a 24-year veteran of the Harvard police who met and befriended a generation of Harvard freshmen in his years of patrolling the Yard, bowed out before 250 friends and co-workers who gathered at the Pound Building to cheer him into retirement...
Nickel-wise but pound-foolish...