Word: bowling
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Hardly anyone can be wholly certain that his confidential conversations are not being overheard or recorded. A microphone can be hidden in a ballpoint pen, a tape recorder made to look like a pack of cigarettes, a radio transmitter planted in a sugar bowl. Despite this rapid growth of electronic eavesdropping, federal and state laws protecting individual privacy are almost nonexistent...
They've danced in Acapulco, exchanged smiles at the Sugar Bowl, held hands at the New Orleans Mardi Gras and churned up a lot of heartwarming rumors. The dates with Lynda Bird Johnson, 21, have also churned up oceans of free publicity for Actor George Hamilton, 26. Were the girl's parents put out about that? Beams Lady Bird: "Lynda is going through a sparkling time and I couldn't be happier...
...born restless," writes Parks, and he tried everything. In 1937, after seeing a collection of dust-bowl pictures by Carl Mydans, Walker Evans and Ben Shahn (who in those days was a photographer as well as a painter), Parks decided to try photography. He hustled to a downtown Seattle hock shop, bought a $12.50 Voigtlander camera, spent half an hour learning how to use the thing, then began shooting everything that crossed his path. So intent was he that he fell into Puget Sound while trying to photograph sea gulls...
Sired by Ribot and foaled by Galbreath's stakes-winning mare Flower Bowl, Graustark was a big (16 hands), rangy colt bred for endurance rather than speed. But at Illinois' Arlington Park last summer, he showed all kinds of speed-winning a six-furlong maiden race by seven lengths, an allowance sprint by nine, the $54,600 Arch Ward Stakes by six. Then he bucked his shins and retired for the year. "Sometimes," sighed Galbreath, "these things work out for the best...
Batman would have attracted nobody but preschoolers were it not for ABC's ingenious promotion efforts. Skywriters emblazoned BATMAN is COMING in the heavens above the Rose Bowl game. Every hour on the hour, television announcements bleated the imminent arrival of the Caped Crusader. Hordes of people who recalled Bob Kane's comicbook creation as well as the 1943 movie serial (TIME, Nov. 26) pushed their toddlers out of the way to get a good look at the TV set. Among other things, they saw a mesomorph in cape and cowl expostulate: "My own parents were murdered...