Word: watchful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ordinarily we would try to fight the inevitable disaster by effecting social and political change. But you and I both know how hopeless that is. As we watch Procaccino gurgle to victory in November, we can kiss goodbye to the electorate. Then we can turn to the RYM, PL, the CP, the WSA, SDS, the P and FP, the BP, BDRG, and the Weathermen. And even if we pulled off a fantastic proletarian revolution right away and started reorganizing everything, it would be 50 years before they got around to air pollution. And the world will be long gone...
...exactly a sissy's sport, but football is admittedly more civilized than whatever game Rutgers and Princeton played 100 years ago. It's certainly more fun to watch now that it's no longer on the Coliseum gladiator level, and today thousands of Ivy League fans will expect entertainment as the season opens once again. All eight teams are playing non-league opponents, but that's all right. Only Columbia can be considered to have an excellent chance of losing. Most should...
...words. The presidency has made a regular golfer of Nixon, who, as a private citizen, found golf "a waste of time." He has taken some evenings off this season to root for the Washington Senators, and will doubtless keep a number of his Sunday afternoons free this fall to watch the Washington Redskins. The White House operated half days for a month from California. Last week, after his reception for U.N. delegates, Nixon took Secretary of State William Rogers, Adviser Henry Kissinger and Chief of Protocol and Mrs. Emil Mosbacher Jr. to Manhattan's "21" Club...
...with the law-and-order issue in crime-plagued Washington, D.C. The 70-year-old legislator was on his way to a Senate prayer breakfast when he was accosted by a burly young thug in the elevator of his apartment building. The youth demanded Jordan's wallet and watch, but the crusty Republican was in the mood for dissent. He swung. "It's ridiculous that you have to live dangerously like this," said Jordan, a 200-pounder who played football as a youth. "I figured I must be slipping when he got up again...
BOAC talked a New York agency, Arthur Frommer's $5-a-Day Tours, into handling the bookings, and scheduled the first flight for Nov. 1. Launching their advertising campaign, BOAC officials sat back to watch Britain's balance of payments deficit turn into a surplus. "We hope," a spokesman said, "that the accent is on entertainment rather than...