Word: watching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...student of history, I watch with great interest the emerging of new African states. I see Uganda's Amin, Angola's bloody civil war, and now Malawi's brutal persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses [Dec. 1]. I am afraid to look for what will emerge next...
...LEGISLATIVE CHARTER. Both critics and supporters of the FBI agreed that Congress should enact legislation spelling out what the FBI can and cannot do, particularly in the area of keeping watch on violence-prone dissidents and potential subversives. Said FBI Director Clarence Kelley: "I would welcome any guidelines...
Last year technology put pocket calculators under the Christmas tree. This year's great space-age spin-off is the digital watch. Hailed by one effusive manufacturer as "probably the greatest breakthrough in timekeeping technology since the sundial," the solid-state, quartz-crystal "time calculator" displays the time (and, on the more expensive models, the month and date) with glowing numbers, rather than hands moving around a clock face. Digitals are expected to account for at least 5% of all watches sold in the U.S. in 1975-some 2.5 million-at prices ranging from $30 to more than...
...were going to launch an "investigation" of Economics Professor Milton Friedman and his ties with economists in the Chilean junta. A vigorous defender of academic freedom, Wilson replied that he would not tolerate an inquisition. In other matters, Wilson is also a stout individualist; he even turns out to watch Chicago's largely ignored football games...
...terrible," Handy said yesterday, "I didn't watch the ball and I didn't move a lot because the floor was so slippery...