Word: watchfulnesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...skips across the living room to where her father is playing chess. "Watch this," he says, stabbing furiously at a keyboard. He is 26 moves into a grim queen's gambit saber duel with Chess Challenger, a $275 computerized overachiever built by Fidelity Electronics, Ltd. The machine is playing at the highest of its three levels, claimed in some ads to equal 1650, the rating of an average club player (the estimate is too generous). It has occurred to the father that it could be a great improvement, in the interest of strict fairness, if the computer...
...plainly demonstrates. The facts of the case were simple: Helen Harris had tickets to a Denver Bronco football game. She went to a suburban shopping mall to catch a bus to Mile High Stadium. The bus never came, and Mrs. Harris was forced to return to her home and watch the game on TV. Clearly a heinous crime, Denver Judge John Sanchez acknowledged. He awarded Mrs. Harris $44.70 in damages from the bus company...
...limelight and shares credit for his performance with the linemen who block for him; after every touchdown, he hands the ball to a teammate for a triumphant spike. At the end of last season, he also handed each offensive lineman more tangible evidence of his gratitude: a gold watch. Declares Payton: "Maybe it's all right to brag if you're Billie Jean King or Muhammad Ali. But I'm in a team sport. It takes ten more guys, and I don't see why I should rip all the glory." Payton first attracted attention...
Then there was the church. Under the Rev. Ralph Peterson, 45, Saint Peter's had become a lively midtown gathering place. Peterson introduced jazz vespers on Sundays, and made the basement into a lunchtime theater where office workers could eat their sandwiches and watch plays. Saint Peter's had found a new role in the city, and the well-named Peterson was loath to move out. Yet the church held the key position on the block. The solution: Citicorp bought the old church for $9 million, demolished it and built in its place a new structure that included...
...generation, the educated young of the U.S. have been taught to deride or satirize the heroic. It is moving to watch their rapt attention at Terra Nova, for they are famished for models of honor. - T.E.K...