Word: watchfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...title of associate professor of biochemistry at Boston University Medical School, his teaching duties are now confined to occasional lectures. He spends his remaining working hours in the finished attic of his West Newton, Mass., home, batting out books on a new electric typewriter, emerging only occasionally to watch Star Trek (his favorite TV show) and make an infrequent out-of-town trip to deliver a lecture or visit a publisher. Asimov dislikes traveling. "When you have been to other galaxies in your mind," he says, "there's nothing so exciting about visiting Peoria...
...result is the housing "shortage." There is little evidence to contradict the existence of a real squeeze, and most City officials who watch the housing situation believe there will be a continuing demand for more space among young people who want to live in Cambridge. The prospect, then, is for more of the same: more transients, low rents getting higher, and low-income Cambridge residents being forced out of the City. The next logical area for these "market forces" to work seems to be eastern, most residential areas of the City...
...subsidiary will watch over the automaker's main European production affiliates, Ford of Britain and Ford of Germany, as well as its sundry assembly, and product-development activities elsewhere in Europe. Actually, the kind of coordination envisioned for the new setup is already evident in some of Ford's Continental operations. European production of Ford's light vans, for example, is so integrated that their front axles are manufactured in Britain, rear axles in West Germany...
Among the world's temples of high finance, none has risen to such eminence in such an unpretentious way as the Switzerland-based Bank for International Settlements. Its five-story, stone-faced headquarters, sandwiched between a tourist agency and a watch shop across from the railway station in Basel, still looks like the second-class hotel it once was. Travelers who often enter its musty lobby hoping to change their money find neither tellers nor vaults nor any cash at all. The B.I.S. keeps elsewhere its $1 billion gold hoard and $1.7 billion in other assets...
...budget of $125,000, The Drifter was one of only three U.S. movies shown at the 1966 Venice Film Festival, won no prize (it was shown out of competition). But for moviegoers who like to look for the emergence of new cinema talents, the film is one to watch. As a screenwriter, Alex Matter needs help. As a director, he needs only another-and better-story...