Word: watchfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...little signs that flash the time and the temperature, organized Goldwater's campaign in Washington. Remember reading thousands of little charts on the organization of the American economy in Ec 101? Throw them out; read White's four-page description of the operation of the "Eastern Establishment" and watch how a thinking reporter makes this "dull" subject come alive...
...major league baseball will find Fenway ark an enjoyable place to spend a hot summer afternoon. The Sox' next home stand begins July 21 against Minnesota, Los Angeles, and Kansas City. But becoming a confirmed Red Sox fan is something to be avoided. It's too painful to watch what could be a fairly good baseball team bumbling its way into ninth place...
Meanwhile, Nauruans have little to complain about. With 95% literacy, little or no disease, no taxes, and a per capita income of $1,800 a year (v. $1,350 for Australians), Nauruans work hard at having fun. They cruise about in 800 cars and motorcycles, watch free movies, indulge in their traditional hobbies of taming frigate birds or man o' war hawks, and grow steadily lazier, happier and fatter (a 250-lb. Nauruan is considered well-rounded...
...five years Jack Paar stood TV's most remorseless watch for NBC, the nightly Tonight show. Then by choice he tapered off the last three seasons with a mere weekly caper. Last week, at 48, Paar went off the air altogether to boss a TV and FM station he bought control of (putting up $1,350,000 in cash) in Poland Spring...
...best crowd-pleasing bits fall to Sinatra. His serio-comic masquerade as a Nazi becomes more than a stunt when, speaking German with eyes, hands, and shrugged shoulders, he fakes a conversation with a Gestapo man who has spied his American watch. Inevitably, the tedeschi leave a voluptuous collaborator (Raffaella Carra) reclining in the caboose. Sinatra spurns her advances, and when she tries to escape, he regretfully mows her down, simultaneously thumbing his nose at his own public image and giving this rolling-stock melodrama at least one swift, strong, indisputable moment of truth...