Word: schieffer
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...hard to see why anyone would want to work on any of the three shows. Survivors of those predawn wake-up calls and truncated social lives report strange goings-on in their heads and stomachs. "People aren't supposed to live those kinds of hours," says Schieffer, who had to rise between 2 and 3 a.m. for 20 months. "I woke up one afternoon with a buzz in my head and realized that I had been having it for two years. Then I knew it was time for me to do something different...
...cannot talk at all. Brokaw also recalls with a shudder .ininterview with an Italian film director who suddenly froze and reverted to his native tongue. Brokaw had, as usual, done his homework and answered his own questions while the film director nodded "Si, si, si. "CBS'S Schieffer had a some what similar experience. He was interviewing a Soviet emigree who suddenly began arguing with her translator. For three minutes the two argued in Russian until the matter was resolved...
...flashing the latest numbers on the pres1 idential race and various other contests. Tight races and those in which CBS has picked a winner will show up with brighter intensity on these screens. Each of the four regional correspondents with him -Dan Rather, Harry Reasoner, Lesley Stahl and Bob Schieffer-will have two computer readout screens and a small data-processing unit...
...network crickets ensued on the convention floor, as TV reporters with spaceman headsets whomped up the next suspenseful question: But will Kennedy stand beside Carter on the final night? Stay tuned! Flashy whip-arounds by floor reporters ("Come in, Dan") give the appearance of aggressive enterprise, but Bob Schieffer of CBS discovered that those Carter White House people so casually encountered and interviewed had been primed with "talking points" so their stories would agree...