Word: watching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Seven and a half million early-morning television viewers are looking for someone to watch over their eye-opening cup of bad news. Before the start of the fall season, NBC must make the big decision-who will be the man to fill the late Frank McGee's spot on Today? Explains one network insider about the Great Host Hunt: "They're trying to make up their minds whether to go with somebody controversial, somebody offbeat or Mr. Nice...
George F. Will, 33. Tired of teaching politics, Will went to Washington in 1970 to watch the workings of government firsthand. He was an obscure Congressional aide until two years ago, when he signed on as Washington editor of National Review. He started a column in the Washington Post soon afterward, and almost overnight his perceptive political commentary made him a leader of conservative opinion. A native of Champaign, Ill., he studied at Trinity, Oxford and Princeton, and taught at Michigan State and the universities of Illinois and Toronto. Among the first conservative leaders to break with President Nixon, Will...
...thoughtful St. Louis-born Wyman, who is widely regarded as heir ap parent to Polaroid Founder Edwin Land. A Phi Beta Kappa English major at Amherst, Wyman worked in the Nestlé Co.'s new products division, where he was concerned with foreign acquisitions, now keeps close watch over Polaroid's fast-growing foreign sales...
...Since the final rounds began in West Germany three weeks ago, Rio de Janeiro factories have shut down, and criminal activities in the city have hit an alltime low. In Rome, efforts to restore a moribund government were disrupted when three Socialist leaders walked out of negotiations to watch a match. In Australia, people stayed up all night to see broadcasts from West Germany, and in the African nation of Zaïre, bus drivers abandoned their vehicles when the Zaïre Leopards took the field 4,000 miles away...
...wisdom agree that the secret of a happy and productive inner life is to forget as much as possible-forget time's winged chariot, forget that your child needs orthodontia, forget that you have forgotten your mother's birthday, forget that the drink you hold as you watch the evening news (which itself must be forgotten) will demolish a billion brain cells...