Word: watchfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...heavily armed HU-1B spotted a concentration of guerrillas. "There's a whole mess of VC nice and open right under us," announced the pilot over his radio. "We're going down after them." The chopper descended, .60-cal. machine guns clattering, rockets dropping from the pods. "Watch them go," cried the pilot, Captain Gary Riggins of Antioch, Calif. These were his last words...
...breathing air at ordinary pressures. Elaborate instrumentation with a variety of fail-safe mechanisms delivers medical gases under extra pressure to the doctors inside. As a further safeguard, the four chambers at the Hennepin Hospital are all equipped with closed-circuit TV, so that monitors on the outside can watch everything that the operating team does on the inside, and sound an alert if normal operating procedures should be violated...
...Fists. After the first game, the Yanks wished they had stayed home too. "Damn," complained Pitcher Whitey Ford, watching the Cards take batting practice in Busch Stadium. "They're hitting them into the stands off their fists." The Yankees had all kinds of complaints: the dirt was too hard, the wind too strong, the fences too short, and the outfield grass looked as though it had been mowed with mortar shells. In the second inning, Rightfielder Mickey Mantle proved that his throwing arm was good as ever-by firing the ball clear into the grandstand on a play...
...switch made sense. Duplicating its efforts in cameras and transistor radios, Japan has quietly become a top producer of watches, aggressively competing around the world against the long-unchallenged watchmakers of Europe. Japanese watch production has ticked upward from 2,000,000 annually to 11,700,000 in a decade, now ranks fourth behind that of Switzerland, Russia...
Split-Second Timing. Hattori, founded in 1881 by a clock salesman of that name, started out as a shoestring importer of foreign timepieces, later pioneered Japan's own watch industry. Destroyed by a 1923 earthquake, Hattori rebuilt, only to be leveled again by U.S. bombers. That disaster proved to be a blessing. In starting from scratch the third time, the company virtually scrapped hand-assembly methods, today makes 75% of its watches by machine. As a result of its super-efficiency, Hattori claims to have been for five years the non-Communist world's largest maker of jeweled...