Word: watching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...showed up in Mather House last year: large numbers of students and tutors would gather in the Junior Common Room each night after dinner to watch the network news shows--Walter Cronkite for the early eaters. John Chancellor for the later diners. One day last spring, as the dragnet lightened around the White House, CBS watchers found a small hand of Star Trek viewers occupying the tube they were outvoted at first, but soon their numbers grew to the point that Captain Kirk phasered Walter Cronkite, and another tradition was over...
During the Great Depression Americans flocked to amusement parks to hear swing bands and to moviehouses to watch battalions of Busby Berkeley chorines sing We're In the Money. Hard times, it seems, called for escape. For half a century, TIME'S People section, with its glimpses of the famous and infamous, has offered readers escape from news of assassinations, wars and economic woes. Today, though recession is crimping the style of many of their subjects, Staff Writer Gina Mallet and Reporter-Researcher Amanda Macintosh, our People section's Sherlock Holmes and Watson, carry on the department...
...Connections. According to Colby, the CIA's possible "missteps" date from the 1950s but most occurred after President Lyndon Johnson became convinced in 1967 that U.S. black radicals and antiwar groups were receiving money and training from foreign anti-American groups. To investigate those supposed links and keep watch on U.S. dissidents during trips abroad, then CIA Director Richard Helms set up a special unit within the agency's Counter-intelligence office. In a statement to the Senate Armed Services Committee last week, Helms asserted: "Information was indeed developed [that] the agitation here did in fact have some...
...course of keeping watch on U.S. dissidents, the Counter-intelligence unit established files on about 10,000 U.S. citizens, including a former Congressman. About two-thirds of the names came from the FBI, the remainder from leads developed by the CIA. Colby said that in recent months the CIA has weeded out about 1,000 of the files as "not justified by CIA's counter-intelligence responsibilities." But the inactive files "could be reconstituted should this be required...
...sharply curtailed surveillance of U.S. dissidents last March, when Colby disbanded the special Counter-intelligence unit and ordered that the CIA watch Americans abroad only when asked to do so by the FBI. But there were dubious domestic actions by other divisions of the CIA that apparently had no connection with the surveillance of dissidents...