Word: watching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Reagan was paraphrasing quotes from a book, On Watch, by Retired Admiral Elmo R. Zumwalt Jr., former Navy chief, which will be published in June. Zumwalt is running on the Democratic ticket for U.S. Senator in Virginia, and his platform consists largely of attacks on Kissinger. The admiral says that Kissinger made the statement to him on a train going to the 1970 Army-Navy football game in Philadelphia and again during a talk in 1972. Kissinger declared through an aide that the statement was "pure invention and totally irresponsible." The Secretary has often spoken pessimistically in private about...
Eusebio may not return this year, but there are some other world class players to watch. Mid-fielder Antonio Simoes, Eusebio's teammate on one of Europe's top teams, Benifica, is one of the top ball-handlers in the NASL. Some experts consider him to be one of the top five players in the world. Very few players will take the ball from...
With coach Hubert Vogelsinger emphasizing a quick passing game (do not be surprised to see 10 passes in a row), the Minutemen promise to be exciting to watch...
Sarah Rothman (a pseudonym) inherited her grandfather's lucrative watch repair business as a young and inexperienced girl-"What I went through, I don't know why I'm living that long, I'm telling your. I broke plenty of watches." But gaining experience, she acquired a sense of independence; after she emigrated to the United States, she asserted her independence by marching on picket lines and getting an illegal abortion. Rose Soskin was only 13 when a 35-year-old Polish doctor decided he would marry her. "In the Old Country, when a doctor wants to marry...
Jerzy Kosinski, Polish-born author (The Painted Bird, Steps, Cockpit) and a frequent guest on Johnny Carson's Tonight show, detects a basic paradox for the novelist and television. "Bear in mind," he says, "that in this country people watch the conversation." To David Halberstam (The Best and the Brightest), spreading the word is like being a political candidate. Says he: "I call it the Nixonization of self. You turn yourself into a human cassette." There is also the nearly hopeless task of trying to explain an idea or complex subject without commercial interruption. South Viet...