Word: watchdogged
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...develops, is a pooch who likes hooch and loves his mistress (Christine Kaufmann) with doglike devotion. Tony is a wolf who hopes to appropriate the mistress. In real life he did: he married Actress Kaufmann while this movie was being made. On screen he has trouble with the watchdog, who 1) spills soup on his lap, 2) contrives to drop a piano on his head, 3) slips him a knockout powder on his wedding night, and 4) fakes suicide to put him in the doghouse. In the end, of course, man beats dog, but only because the scriptwriter is biased...
...Watchdog. Though Conservative Karamanlis was the ablest Premier in recent Greek history, King Paul and Queen Frederika considered him highhanded (he thought the same of the Queen); they also opposed his ideas of reforming the constitution to give the Premier stronger executive powers. In June, when they rejected Karamanlis' advice to call off a scheduled state visit to Britain because of possible leftist demonstrations, he resigned and spent three months in a Swiss villa. Returning to run for reelection, he was narrowly defeated by wily, middle-of-the-road George Papandreou, 75. Karamanlis wanted to quit then...
Fellow Texan and onetime Accountant Walter W. Jenkins, 45, has been closer to Johnson longer than anyone else on his personal staff. Jenkins joined Johnson in 1939, only two years after he was elected to Congress, and quickly became his top administrative aide. He performed as political watchdog and personnel manager, answered Johnson's mail and mined assiduously for information to keep Johnson briefed. A Johnson friend remarked in the campaign days of 1960, "He is the one man who can hold L.B.J. together. The Senator talks with him an hour a day no matter where...
...Middle East) for three U.S. Presidents, since 1945 Hollywood's unflagging champion as head of the Motion Picture Association; following a stroke; in Washington. A handsome, athletic extravert, Johnston began as a Spokane vacuum-cleaner salesman, became the Northwest's biggest independent appliance distributor. As movie watchdog, he led the campaign to blacklist movie Communists, coped with foreign competition by quietly liberalizing production codes to the point that even the once-rejected The Moon Is Blue was deemed nonblue enough to pass muster. In 1953 he went to the Middle East for President Eisenhower and proposed a plan...
...Bank of France, did not like the idea of moving his wife and son from Paris to Washington. Word went out that he had been Jacobsson's own personal choice, and as the pressures mounted, Schweitzer finally gave in. Last week he was officially named the new watchdog of the world's currencies...