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Walter Leland Cronkite, Jr. was born Nov. 4, 1916 and is now retired. Began his career as broadcast journalist in 1937. Best known as anchorman for CBS Evening News and ending his newscasts with ¿And that¿s the way it is.¿
Walter Leland Cronkite, Jr. was born Nov. 4, 1916 and is now retired. Began his career as broadcast journalist in 1937. Best known as anchorman for CBS Evening News and ending his newscasts with ¿And that¿s the way it is.¿
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Chattanooga: VW's Next Stand
KickingTiresChattanooga, Tenn. ??? Honda wasn't the first foreign automaker to open an assembly plant in the U.S., but it was the first to stay. In 1978, German automaker Volkswagen converted an unfinished Chrysler plant in Westmoreland County, Pa., to build......Tags: Plant Openings, Westmoreland County, Lotteries, Manufacturing and Engineering, Automotive Equipment
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Walter Cronkite: A Look Back
The TV ZoneWalter Cronkite's funeral is tomorrow afternoon, and so I'd like to take a look back at this career in a handful of posts today that I hope might convey to a reader exactly why this passing is so important.......Tags: United States, CBS Corp.
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Coast Guard training: Matter of timing?
The Swampby Mark Silva and updated at 12:15 pm EDT Anyone with an eye on a television set in Washington this morning was transfixed for a moment as the cable news flashed reports of the Coast Guard firing several rounds on......Tags: Drama (genre), Advanced Training, September 11, 2001 Attacks, National Government, Government
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Obama, Clinton, lunch and health care
The Swampby Mark Silva and updated again at 5 pm EDT President Barack Obama was in New York today to talk about the government's handling of the financial crisis that threatened the nation as he assumed office. He had lunch with......Tags: National Government, Government, Heads of State, New York, Washington (U.S. state)
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Barack Obama: 'Media critic'
The Swampby Mark Silva Our good friend David Jackson at USA Today has identified a new role for the president of the United States, really an old role for presidents: Media critic. In accepting the apology of Republican Rep. Joe Wilson......Tags: Theodore Roosevelt, Richard Nixon, National Government, United States, Government
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Obama's must-have health-care demands
The Swampby Mark Silva and updated again at 10:30 am EDT President Barack Obama, who will deliver an address to a joint session of Congress tonight, says he will insist upon several must-have elements of a health-care overhaul that he does......Tags: Robin Roberts, National Government, Ohio, Government, CBS Corp.
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Obama to grads: 'Body of work' ahead
The Swampby Mark Silva President Barack Obama addressed squarely, and with a measure of humor, tonight the very words that a public university had used this year in refusing to confer an honorary degree upon a president, a graduate of Harvard......Tags: Winston Churchill, Fires, United States, National Collegiate Athletic Association, Government
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Walter Cronkite: In Very Bad Shape
The TV Zone(AP) The "most trusted man in America"...the former anchor of "The Evening News"... who told us about JFK's assassination, and Vietnam, and the moon landing, and earlier generations about the battle over Civil rights, and before that, the Battle......Tags: Tom Brokaw
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Cronkite
The TV Zone(AP) Back, gang, to sober news: The death of an old and cherished acquaintance. Sorry for this late post, but due to circumstances beyond my immediate control - I have been away and the good people at Newsday.com are......Tags: Lyndon B. Johnson, National Government, Government, Democratic Party, Sports
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Cronkite: Vietnam
The TV ZoneThis war was of course the story of Walter Cronkite's career - the war that never seemed to end, while devouring 58,000 American lives (and countless more Vietnamese, Laotian, and Cambodian lives.) It was the steady drumbeat of "Evening......Tags: CBS Corp.
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Walter Cronkite: Anchor of an era
The Swampby Mark Silva Walter Cronkite, who not only delivered the evening news, but also imparted a sense of security amid turmoil and wisdom amid chaos, passed away today at the age of 92. Cronkite, the CBS newsman of newsmen, mourned......Tags: John F. Kennedy Assassination (1963), Lyndon B. Johnson, Oklahoma, Radio Industry, National Government
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Self-scanning as you go at the supermarket
Dining@LargeSix years ago I wrote a story for the food section about the new self-scan lanes. My lead was 'Passions are running high at your local supermarket.' Now it's hard to remember what the fuss was about. Either you like......Tags: Timonium
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