[GreenKeys] Walter Cronkite and Model 28s

[Bill]

It's all spent on earth...There isn't anything to buy on the moon or in 
space...
Bill Marx W2CQ



Ron Ott wrote:
> It's ironic that Katy Couric, who "replaced" Walter Cronkite in the anchor's seat decades later, questioned the amounts of money being spent on the US space program in her "Katy's Notebook" segment one day on CBS radio. "Think of what we could do on Earth with all that money!"  I wonder if Walt heard it and ever gave her a very different opinion.  I just wasn't fast enough on the volume knob that day, and I still wonder what we could do on Earth with half her salary.
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> I had the very brief privlege of meeting the man 35 years ago. I was 
> working at a boatyard,Edgartown Marine, when Walter and his son docked 
> and requested service.So I pumped gas for him,said a quick "how do you 
> do", and a firm handshake.A warm and personable guy.
>   ( i did the math: he was 57 then,I am 57 now.)
>   All during the early space race years, Mercury and Geminii,my parents 
> let us kids stay home from school and watch the launches with Walter 
> Cronkite narrating every spell bound moment.
>   In his passing,we have lost one of the truely great of the Greatest 
> Generation.
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> From: Charles Ring <w3nu at roadrunner.com>
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> Sent: Sun, Jul 19, 2009 3:43 pm
> Subject: [GreenKeys] Walter Cronkite and Model 28s
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> One of my memories of Walter Cronkite is the row of 28RO's on his set. 
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> seem to remember that they were working and someone occasionally would
> rip copy off them during the show.Two curiosities: which news feeds 
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> they printing, and I never saw a 28 on AP or UPI elsewhere except the
> one I connected at WPIC as a backup to the very unreliable early Extel
> dot matrix printers. I know that 28RO's were used on the NOAA weather
> wires (I have one of those).
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