Word: monitorable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...space underneath the grandstand was empty. Everyone was either out near the track or watching the closed-circuit TV monitor...
...saturated novels. The author, Robert Townsend, is an executive best known for driving Avis from a distant second in the car-rental field to wealth and prominence in only three years (1962 to 1965) as its chief executive officer. (He now is owner of a small newsletter, The Congressional Monitor.) His book is more a hip survival manual than a reasoned study. Its short chapters pop corporate conceits like balloons at a shooting gallery, but often fail to offer anything of substance to replace them. Still, many of his observations will bring nervous laughs in executive suites...
...suburbs fiction can predict the finale. Walpurgisnacht occurs at a monumental bash thrown by your typical Fairfield County vulgarian. Crocked, randy, and desperate to get "the Lepridon account," Wilson beds down with the wife (Nancie Phillips) of a fellow commuter in the outside playhouse. Sure enough, a TV monitor, installed to oversee children at play, records the grope for the amusement of the guests and the despair of Mrs., mistress...
Named after Godfrey Sperling Jr., news manager of the Washington bureau of the Christian Science Monitor, "Breakfast with Godfrey" has become a Washington institution. Since 1966, when he invited his old friend Charles Percy to lunch with a few fellow newsmen, Sperling has organized 121 breakfasts, including three last week. Invariably, they are held at 8:15 in the President's Room at the National Press Club. Only 20 reporters-the number that fits the table-are invited. Invariably, the guest finds that he is the main course as the newsmen grill him for 75 minutes...
Love Festival. About 1,000 agents have been used to monitor disturbances, rallies, even high school demonstrations. One agent was on the floor of the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago, mission uncertain. Two Keystone Korporals were flushed out of the bushes in a Chicago park as they watched a Yippie love festival. From such activities the Army compiled reports that were circulated to base commanders and law-enforcement officials. Some of the information relayed seemed ludicrous. One item warned of impending violence on the "Day of St. Lazar," when