Word: monitoring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...final minutes before the TV debate began, Kennedy looked tired and nervous. With two minutes to go, he took out a sheaf of notes and began going over them with a gold-and-black ballpoint pen. Across the U.S., Dick Nixon glanced at the monitor set, saw Kennedy with the notes, and glared angrily...
...With scarcely so much as a nod to doctors-for-Nixon, the influential Christian Science Monitor-which supported Ike in 1952 and neither candidate in 1956 -endorsed Richard Nixon as the man more likely to give the U.S. "positive, progressive and skilled leadership...
...great quality of leadership a political party must have in its candidate for the presidency. He is the best-trained man in history." Glowed the Indianapolis News: "A forceful leader, a hard campaigner, and an articulate speaker." The Denver Post lauded Nixon's "political skill," the Christian Science Monitor his "depth of thinking," the St. Paul Dispatch his "ability to unify divergent groups," the Portland Oregonian his "experience, vigor, intelligence...
...precise science of meteorology. Until Tiros, the story of what happens overhead had been a matter of educated guesswork, a smattering of facts well-larded with interpolation. Only a few areas (Europe, parts of the U.S., Japan) have tight networks of weather observation posts, and even these can only monitor a relatively small patch of weather. A ground observer can see cloud effects about five miles away. If he has radar, he can report heavy rain at a somewhat greater distance; even aircraft at 45,000 ft. can see only 150 miles. Between the observers are wide-open spaces...
...After two years of dirt sifting by the Subcommittee on Legislative Oversight, the House passed a bill tightening broadcasting regulations and outlawing payola (maximum penalty: $10,000 fine and a year in jail). The Federal Communications Commission would monitor TV programs for hints of payola or other abuses, slap a ten-day suspension or fine of up to $1,000-a-day on offending stations...