Word: watching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Unseeded Harvard played unseen by spectators in the peripheral courts of Penn's Ringe Gym all weekend. The pastel corduroys, the tweeds and the Lacoste shirts were out in full force--but not to watch their alma-mater. Rather, the women's and men's national championships were crowd-drawing events in the tournament...
Died. Milton Harry Biow, 83, advertising man and popularizer of such classic catch phrases as "Call for Philip Morris" and "Bulova Watch Time" and creator of radio's celebrated The $64 Question; in Manhattan...
...trial arts, Bailey's greatest strength is crossexamination. Says Alch: "I can watch him cross-examine a witness, and he'll lose me. If I don't know where he is going, you can bet your life the witness doesn't." One typical example came in a 1968 trial in Boston in which an eyewitness identification was important to the prosecution's case. Defense Lawyer Bailey got the prosecution witness to mistakenly name a man in the courtroom as an investigator who had interviewed him. With the witness reeling but stubborn, Bailey then brought in another man and asked...
...stayed for dinner and the next day went to watch Bailey perform in court. Three days later Bailey proposed. Lynda, then engaged to marry someone else (the invitations were already out) promptly accepted...
Developments have not been linear; there are fewer newspapers today than there were 50 years ago, and new forms threaten older ones. The staggering audiences for mass communications have access to paperback books, Xerox copies, photography, films and a variety of other forms. Millions of Americans watch or hear the news at least three times a day-before work, at dinnertime and before sleep. Commercials, discussion shows, documentaries all provide further information...