Huntley and Brinkley are off the air, their show abruptly shelved. Lawrence Spivak, Mike Wallace and Curt Gowdy are fired outright. Edwin Newman is still on the payroll but restricted to covering baseball. Howard K. Smith has been forcibly retired, and Eric Sevareid has been rusticated to the local sta tion in Keokuk. In their place are unknown third-stringers, providing bland, cursory newscasts culled from the wire services. Translated from the French, that is the situation U.S. televiewers would face this week.
In the wake of their strike against Gaullist censorship (TIME, July...
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