Word: wristwatches
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...unfair to Actors Caron and Buchholz, who are pleasant people, but lovingly photographed docks, boats, fish stalls and bit players make it difficult to pay attention to their romance. The viewer's first thought as he leaves is not of the bittersweet ambience of love but of his wristwatch: Does he have time to reach American Express before it closes, to pick up his mail and get some more francs...
...Institut de Puériculture, a hospital for premature infants, she accepted a bouquet of sweet peas, admired the babies, and observed that her daughter Caroline detested flashbulbs. The president of the Paris Municipal Council presented her with a tiny wristwatch, was rewarded with a smile. Then there was a quick trip to flower-decked Malmaison, the Empress Josephine's country retreat, and a gourmet lunch (lobster thermidor, mousse aux fraises des bois, and three wines) at La Celle St. Cloud, the long-ago hideaway of Mme. de Pompadour. And capping it all was the gala evening at the Palace...
...final judging for best in show, Sister was matched against a bigger, white miniature poodle, a Scottish terrier, a parti-colored cocker, a dachshund and a boxer. After frequent consultations with his wristwatch. as if timing his decisions to television, Judge Joseph E. Redden, himself a terrier fancier, pointed to Sister. Said Redden: "It resolved itself into a choice of the two poodles. There was remarkably little difference in their breed characteristics. In my opinion, the toy was better in the head, and that was the deciding factor...
...before dawn next day, Eisenhower arrived by helicopter at the Barlow Firehouse near his Gettysburg farm so early that he had to wait five minutes for the polls to open at 7 a.m. When asked the inevitable question, Eisenhower pointed to his wristwatch, which bore pictures of his grandchildren at four points around the dial: "That's who I voted...
...arrival, Richard Nixon's Government Cadillac pulled up and disgorged the Republican team. Nixon had recently emerged from a Statler-Hilton hotel suite where he spent a few uninterrupted hours of peace and thought. Inside the studio Nixon stepped straight up to the platform, put his wristwatch on his speaker's stand. He had been made up at home by an expert, and an accompanying lighting expert pronounced NBC's lights perfectly all right. A few minutes before they went on the air, Kennedy strolled over to the Vice President, and both spoke inaudibly as they shook...