Word: watching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...television program that Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos, 55, watched last week did not exactly follow the script he had written. Beamed to Manila's Malacañang Palace by closed-circuit TV, the drama was supposed to be an orderly show trial of Marcos' longtime political enemy, former Senator Benigno (Ninoy) Aquino Jr., 41, onetime secretary-general of the Liberal Party. Instead, the President had to watch, presumably in pain and anger, as Aquino turned the trial into an emotional and stunningly effective public challenge to the regime of martial law that Marcos imposed over eleven months...
...average tovarishch while in Kiev. At the Hotel Moskva on October Revolution Street she exchanges prepaid vouchers for her meals (breakfast: salami and cheese, two boiled eggs, black bread, fig jam, coffee-$1.50). Next week her father Prince Philip and her fiancé Mark Phillips will join her and watch her ride in the European equestrian championships. The normally obligatory visit to Lenin's tomb in Moscow has been dropped from Philip's itinerary, perhaps in quiet recognition of the fact that he is a cousin once removed of the late Czar Nicholas II, who was murdered with...
...visit was over. Giarrusso, explaining that his informant had not even witnessed the meeting and that his evidence was hearsay at best, refused. "If you want them arrested," Giarrusso told the Secret Service, "then you arrest them. We have no grounds." Instead he agreed to keep close watch on all six suspects, and the Secret Service obtained arrest authorizations for the six from a U.S. magistrate, making pickups possible at the slightest hint of trouble. But the six suspects made no moves to carry out any action against Nixon, and there was doubt that they had ever intended...
...clientele of tourists and Japanese businessmen seem to mind. "A few months ago, when Humble Pie was here, two gray-haired ladies from Omaha were staying in the hotel," recalls Night Desk Clerk Jim Ralston. "They took naps in the afternoon so they could sit up at night and watch the circus. They just sat, chattered and poked each other in the ribs in amazement." Between the circus and the onlookers, the Hyatt is enjoying an 82% occupancy rate, 17% higher than the national hotel average. (Rates: from $21.50 per room to $1,100 for the entire floor that some...
...Goldston is gone. Ralph Glodston, a crusty and hardnosed coaching veteran, who punctuated practices with pithy similes and drove his defensive backs through hell and back, who once likened a defensive back's stance to "a dog shitting razor blades," and who inspired with the regularity of a Swiss watch bombastic letters from the Association of Black Athletes charging the football staff with racism. Glodston who resented being considered a "black" first and a coach second, who wanted to get into serious football, who tasted the brand and atmosphere of Cambridge and pulled up roots for the greener and more...