Selections from the days when the top-of--the-hour news went a solid five minutes with interminable reports over the phone from Cairo.

 

 

 
Five minutes of 1973. The Grim Times.
     
   

Yes, there were wage controls on newspaper salaries.
     
   
Barry Goldwater just gives up on Nixon.
     
   

Hiss vs. Nixon.
     
   

Ronald Reagan sticks to his guns.