Word: eying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...AMERICAN COMMONWEALTH, by Louis Keren. The Washington correspondent of the London Times casts a sympathetic eye on the U.S. political system...
...automobile-insurance practices, 3) more measures to protect the public from radiation by electronic appliances, 4) blanketing the states with tougher poultry-inspection rules, 5) federal standards on the purity and quality of fish, 6) a safety program for pleasure boats, 7) clearer warranties on appliances and a federal eye on the quality of repairs, and 8) a "consumers' counsel" in the Justice Department to speak up in court for that perpetual patsy, the consumer. "Do you foresee the repeal of Barnum's law?"* a newsman asked as Ramsey Clark glowingly outlined this point. Smiled Clark: "You never...
Galbraith unabashedly enjoys being close to the center of power. As he explains it, with a twinkle in his eye: "My father thought that we were obliged because of our enormous size to alter the world to our specifications...
...Gloria Steinem finds him "overpowering." Actress Angie Dickinson describes him as "fascinating and funny." Galbraith's yet-to-be-published India diaries return the compliment. "She has fair, pure skin," he cooed after sitting next to Angie on a transcontinental jet in 1961, "blonde to vaguely reddish hair, merry eyes and a neat, unstarved body." Despite his obviously observant eye, Miss Dickinson, who visited the subcontinent in 1962, doubts that he has any "serious romances?or any romances...
...Eagle-Eye Lens. The network bought the TV rights to the games in 1965 for $2,000,000 (up from $50,000 in 1960). Ever since then, ABC engineers have been skittering across the slopes of the Alps like spiders, spinning out a 40-mile web of cables. With the help of helicopters, snowcats and a detachment from the French army, they swaddled the 350-lb. color cameras in heated jackets and positioned them on rocky precipices as high as 7,400 feet...