Word: watching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...aboard took pictures of the damaged tail area while the plane was still aloft. But when South Vietnamese soldiers looted the crash site, they destroyed the film as well as the flight-data recorder. The looters also stripped an injured flight engineer, pinned in the wreckage, of his pistol, watch, wallet, shoes and socks...
...weeks, TV ads in seven U.S. cities have touted such Jack attractions as spotless premises, new uniforms, quick service and indoor seating. So far, so conventional-but as the ad ends, the TV screen fills with the well-scrubbed faces of eight Jack-in-the-Box employees who squeal: "Watch out, McDonald's! Watch out, McDonald...
...comprises 800 restaurants in 24 states; last year they racked up sales of $268.5 million. McDonald's owns or franchises 3,400 restaurants in the U.S. and 17 foreign countries; in 1974 chain wide sales totaled $1.9 billion. But Jack's sales have risen 15% since the "Watch out, McDonald's!" ads began running. They will go up even more next month, predicts Marketing Vice President John Castiglione, when Jack unsheathes a new weapon: a 7½in.-long Super Taco...
Monkey Business. It's gotten so that I don't like to watch the Marx Brothers M-G-M extravaganzas anymore, with their water-ballets and cupie-doll tenor heroes thrown in among the more or less emasculated brothers. So Monkey Business from the tacky Paramount days comes as blessed relief, reaffirmation and so on. It is wonderful. This is the one where Groucho, Chico and most importantly Harpo all do imitations of Maurice Chevalier singing "Eef a Nightengale Cood Sin Lak You" and where Grouch announces that "love goes out the door when money comes innuendo". The script...
Hudson, it seems, nobly renounced his ambition to be a lawyer and took a job as a gamekeeper to support his parents and educate a gifted younger brother. He falls in love with a highland lass, only to watch her die from measles...