Word: watchfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that have failed, or are failing, in Africa and Southeast Asia. Mao & Co., said the Russians, wish "to represent China as a 'besieged fortress' in hopes of originating a military conflict between Russia and the United States . so that they may, 'sit on the mountain and watch the fight of the tigers...
...tube. Now Nielsen may know why. Gathering material for his book, How to Rig TV Ratings for Fun and Profit, former Congressional Investigator Rex Sparger had mailed out phony questionnaires to the A. C. Nielsen Co.'s normally top-secret sample viewers, designed to ensure that they would watch Bob's performance. "I chose his show to rig because he is such a great man," joked Sparger. "Maybe I'll hire him," cracked Hope. Sparger repeated the prank three other times, but Nielsen was not amused. The company filed a $1,500,000 damage suit in Oklahoma...
Renewed Welcome. For all his chauvinism, De Gaulle could hardly watch calmly while all those Yankee dollars went to other countries. Last January, when former Premier Michel Debre took over the Economics Ministry, the word was passed that France once again would welcome American investment. Thus Chicago-based Motorola has just won official permission to build a multimillion-dollar plant at Toulouse to make transistors, diodes and integrated circuits. International Telephone & Telegraph Corp. recently received approval for a semiconductor factory at Colmar, and the French subsidiary of Caterpillar got authority in mid-March to double the size of its Grenoble...
Mercer School's bright students (average IQ is 118) jam the tiny film center after school to view films on their own. They have also been permitted to take projectors and films home on weekends, leading entire families-even neighborhoods-to turn off Gunsmoke and watch movies on the operation of jet aircraft, modern life of Eskimos, human anatomy, basic principles of electricity. Despite all the accent on viewing, students are not bored when they turn to books. The films arouse the children's interests, say the teachers, and broaden their vocabulary. Circulation in the school...
...reconnaissance missions" have been swackingly successful. In an era when imported plays have dominated Broadway, Merrick has skimmed most of the cream off the import market. He frequently gets there first, offers top bid, makes selections both shrewd and estimable. He can watch a London play and calculate to the dollar the cost of producing it on Broadway. And what...