Word: watching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Betamax video-tape record-and-playback system (price: $1,300 list, about $1,000 at discount). The Betamax, which can be attached to any TV, records on a $16 cartridge one hour's worth of color (or black and white) programming-either off a channel being watched or another channel. So watch what you please, go out when you like-setting the handy timer-and replay at your leisure the shows you loved or you missed. Terrific...
...murders were committed by the same man. The chilling conclusion of Birmingham Police Chief Jerry Tobin: "We think he is a white-collar-class person or a professional man-somebody who is trusted, like a doctor, a policeman, a member of the clergy." Asked if that means neighbor should watch neighbor, his answer is a terse...
...March of 1973, reporters crowded into a hearing room on Capitol Hill to watch the Senate Judiciary Committee grill L. Patrick Gray, Nixon's nominee for FBI director, about his role in the Watergate investigation. Like Champion, Gray was the only official available for questioning, and his nomination was eventually withdrawn. Champion was clearly luckier, for the Souza Medicare fraud scandal has apparently blown over. So he can now turn his attention to simpler problems--like welfare reform...
Marquette University won the NCAA basketball title last night over North Carolina, and you'll have to pardon me if I don't get some of the details straight. You see it's kinda hard to watch a basketball game when your ballet-crazy brother keeps switching the channel to check out what's happening with the Harlem Dance Company special...
...Muhammed, Fran, Hondo, Yaz and The Golden Bear--good luck! Try to follow the examples of Ted Williams, Jimmy Brown, and John Wooden. Get up there with Al Maguire and see what fun it is to be able to watch from a permanent box seat on top of the mountain...