Word: wristwatches
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...referee's wristwatch showed 30 seconds left in the game. Dunster-Mather lined up at its own 20-yd. line, leading 19-0. Lowell had just missed its first field goal attempt of the year, and it looked like it would be another 11 months before the Bellboys would be back on offense...
...surface of American, European or other Asian cities. One explanation is that the citizenry is governed by a public ethic that was not evident before the 1949 Revolution, or Liberation, as the Chinese prefer to call it. If, for example, a young person comes home with a wristwatch or a transistor radio that has obviously been stolen or otherwise illicitly acquired, he must not only surrender it; he must also undergo a somewhat Orwellian regimen of "self-criticism...
America's No. 1 mouse and Japan's No. 1 man are old friends. Ever since his tour of Disneyland in 1975, Emperor Hirohito has treasured a memento of his trip: a Mickey Mouse wristwatch. Even on the most formal occasions, His Majesty has been observed wearing his Mickey Mouse. Thus there was dismay in the royal household when the trusty watch stopped ticking, and concerned palace chamberlains rushed it to Tokyo experts specializing in American timepieces. The diagnosis? A new battery was needed. Last week, his hands moving again, Mickey was reunited with Hirohito...
...Nixon and Johnson not only distrusted eggheads in the scientific world but also cut their influence and money. Maybe part of the problem was the ineptitude of these two in the world of machines. Nixon could not run a tape recorder. Johnson could not fully figure out his alarm wristwatch and once had to halt his automobile to solve the problem of turning on the windshield squirter...
...introduced the elegant, expensive and popular line of "Executive" calculators in Europe and the U.S. But in 1975 such electronic giants as Texas Instruments and Japan's Casio captured most of the market and drove down calculator prices. Meanwhile Sinclair had introduced the Black Watch, a digital wristwatch aimed at the British youth market. Demand was high, but the firm that supplied the integrated circuits could not produce them in sufficient numbers. Watch and calculator losses transformed a profit of $530,000 on sales of $13.3 million in fiscal 1975 to a deficit of $640,000 on sales...