Word: watchfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...baseball. Two more are on the way up. "Everybody tells me," says Mrs. Mabel Boyer, "that each of my boys turns out a little better than the next older one." On the chance that Mama is right, scouts from 14 major-league clubs have visited Alba this season, to watch Ronnie Boyer, 17, play a dazzling third base for the Alba High School Wildcats. Ronnie's batting average: a lusty .500. The scouts had only to shift their gaze a bit to see still another Boyer in action: Sophomore Leonard, 16, playing a fine shortstop for the same Wildcats...
Kennedy's toughest chore, if he intends to keep watch over wages and prices, is apt to come not with major unions but with the tangle of small and militant locals in the construction industry. Last week a strike of construction workers -and a likely lockout by employers - was threatening to paralyze building in Northern California. The locals involved demanded that their current hourly base wage ($3.23 to $3.47) be increased by a phenomenal $1.15 an hour over three years. Management offered 33?, and neither side was budging...
...Coventry Cathedral, a twin-rotor helicopter picked up a two-ton, Soft, spire, flew the length of the church's copper-covered concrete roof, hovered dead on target while builders bolted the spire into place. Supplier of the helicopter: the Royal Air Force, whose outnumbered pilots had to watch helplessly one night 22 years ago when 500 Luftwaffe bombers hit Coventry in the war's worst raid on Britain and reduced the 600-year-old cathedral to a shell...
This fact and the two-year term of the governor serve to limit the amount he can accomplish, Volpe claimed. "You no sooner get elected and make plans than someone tells you you have to watch out because an election is coming...
...feel condescending. Its tricks of terror are too obviously tricks, and the unreality is reassuring-even soporific. What's more, at 46, Peck really ought to stop doing the boyish bit. But Mitchum as usual makes a nice shiny reptile, and it's gory good fun to watch Peck cut him up into handbags...