Word: watchfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Topside keeps a careful watch over the aquanauts' condition. Each morning the doctor on board Sealab takes blood, saliva and urine samples, checks the aquanauts' heartbeats, brain waves and blood pressures. The aquanauts are tested for sight and hearing, strength and coordination. At night each man sits down to an Electrowriter to file a confidential report to the surface on how he feels and, as Bond says, "what stinks about the program...
Topsy-Turvy Life. Supplies are lowered to Sealab in a small, pressurized capsule-an aquatic dumbwaiter that brings in such goodies as chocolate cake and fresh meat to supplement the aquanauts' stock of freeze-dried food. The men can watch commercial TV but prefer to peer out the portholes at the fish looking in at them. During the flight of Gemini 5, Aquanaut Carpenter even chatted directly with Astronaut Gordon Cooper. In case of emergency, the men could get power and fresh water from a tube linking them to shore, and they could surface in a 14-ft. capsule...
...stores between them last month threw out all stamps, plastered newspapers with DOWN GO PRICES ads, and caused a run on stamp redemption centers. Last week the oldest and largest of the 200 U.S. trading stamp firms, the Sperry & Hutchinson Co., struck back. It took full-page ads warning, "Watch out, Mrs. Shopper," and claiming that "food chains that dropped stamps later raised prices higher than when they gave stamps...
Sounding remarkably like the President of the country to the north, Díaz Ordaz summed up by telling the Mexican Congress that the government has the "unavoidable obligation to watch over the people of Mexico and the destiny of the Mexican nation...
...Hours is also enlivened by a couple of wild parties that are good to watch, thanks chiefly to a stunning Negro in a low-cut evening dress, of whom one of the guests says: "Under the shower she shines like a horse!" But the film's major flaw is a phony, febrile ending that shows the older and wiser married couple dispiritedly going back to their premarital assignations because, as the sound track intones, "The hours of love are scattered and fleeting...