A Life on the RoadFor more than 30 years, Charles Kuralt, the host of CBS News' "Sunday Morning," has traveled the world's byways. In this warm, deeply affecting memoir, Kuralt retraces the steps of a journey that began when he was a young CBS news reporter frantically trying to cover international events, a journey that took him to South America, Vietnam, and the Okefenokee Swamp. From an Arizona cowboy who confessed to wearing pantyhose under his chaps and a Moscow dentist who tearfully thanked former American POW's for saving his life in a German prison camp, to memorable meetings with Marlon Brando and Nikita Khrushchev---here is a story of triumphs and tragedies, swimming pigs and cattle roundups, and one man's lifelong love of the road and the people he's met along the way. |
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... lived a dour modern artist named Charles Duback . Upstairs lived a jovial folk singer , Lee Hays of The Weavers quartet , blacklisted and unable to find employ- ment at the time because of alleged left - wing associations in his peripa ...
... lived a dour modern artist named Charles Duback . Upstairs lived a jovial folk singer , Lee Hays of The Weavers quartet , blacklisted and unable to find employ- ment at the time because of alleged left - wing associations in his peripa ...
Page 133
... lived and toiling not so much for themselves as for others . " It is necessary work ... " " Somebody has to teach the kids ... " " These farmers count on me , you see ... " Their purposes and undertakings seemed entirely admirable to me ...
... lived and toiling not so much for themselves as for others . " It is necessary work ... " " Somebody has to teach the kids ... " " These farmers count on me , you see ... " Their purposes and undertakings seemed entirely admirable to me ...
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... lived to bestride the mighty and heretofore deemed endless Missouri . " ( If you don't mind sharp climbs on winding dirt roads , you can drive right to the same spot and step across the “ Missouri " yourself . Izzy and Larry and Charlie ...
... lived to bestride the mighty and heretofore deemed endless Missouri . " ( If you don't mind sharp climbs on winding dirt roads , you can drive right to the same spot and step across the “ Missouri " yourself . Izzy and Larry and Charlie ...
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