Word: watchful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...House of Representatives to accept Zicarelli's telephone calls. Although Gallagher has denied the allegation with varying degrees of indignation, he has never bothered to sue LIFE for its disclosures about him. He has since been reelected, and remains a member of the House Government Operations Committee, which watches the federal agencies that watch...
...they are surrounded by enemies ready to pounce at their first lapse, public figures can get away with a lot if their misdeeds are only a matter of gossip. The U.S. President, in particular, is well insulated against excessively prying eyes. Warren Harding employed the Secret Service to keep watch over his liaisons in the White House. Franklin Roosevelt's affair with his wife's social secretary, Lucy Mercer, was successfully kept out of print even though it almost broke up his marriage. Washington gossips amused themselves with stories about John Kennedy's attentiveness to pretty girls...
...liberal underground have called on Czechoslovaks to make the anniversary a national "day of shame" by boycotting state services; more than 200 people were detained for printing and distributing the leaflets. Determined to avert all demonstrations and minimize even passive resistance, the government urged all citizens to "watch out for disruptive elements," placed the army, police and people's militia on full alert and warned that anyone who failed to report to work would have to give a personal accounting. The nation's schools have become incubators of anti-Soviet feeling, even down to the elementary level...
...change shows at the Detective Bureau press room. The Sun-Times' Walter Spirko and the Tribune's Johnny Paster, among the last of the 30-year veterans, are still there. Otherwise, except for the "City News kid," the place is virtually deserted during the late-night dog watch. "Everything's changed," says Paster. "Ever since the riots at the convention, the cops are very leary about talking to us. I've put in for early retirement next year. Things aren't like they used to be." "Yeah," says Spirko. "We used to cabaret around with...
...water-pollution control. Unlike some alarmist ecologists, Hutchinson thinks that mankind will survive its excesses. "But the cost to the satisfactions of life will be enormous. There is already a reaction to overcrowding in the cities-riots. The fact that people can't sit in a garden, watch birds around them-this is the real source of difficulty. We need more research not only on the minimal needs of people in cities but also on their optimal needs. What can we do to help them feel more truly human...