Word: rans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scoop in July on the fact that a 7-lb. TV camera developed by Westinghouse was scheduled to provide live coverage on the first Apollo manned mission to the moon [Aug. 19]. Aviation Week printed the first story on this camera and its moon mission Jan. 10, and ran a picture of the camera a week later, along with the story that NASA was studying the feasibility of converting its black and white capability to color for transmission from the lunar surface...
...issue of Nov. 8, 1963, we ' ran a story about Miles College, a small Negro institution on the outskirts of Birmingham, Ala., so strapped that it had to stop watering its lawn for fear it would run up too big a water bill. Its buildings were inadequate and shabby, it lacked accreditation, and prejudice was blocking attempts at self-improvement. Miles, the only four-year college available to most of the 4,000 Negro students who graduate from Birmingham's high schools each year, was, to put it bluntly, in big trouble...
...addition, it ran farms, dealt in antiques and trafficked in drugs. But perhaps its biggest racket was protection. If the bribe was right, UDBA could hush up crimes or fix sentences for defendants facing stiff penalties. In fact, UDBA was not above framing...
...family-and were almost impossible to track. The U.S. command in Saigon is setting up a punch-card system for the regular Vietnamese army so that it will know where all its men are at any given time. Meanwhile, U.S. observers like to remind critics that the Union Army ran up a total of 200,000 deserters during the Civil...
...from Budapest. A pair of Rumanians recently hid for three days under a truckload of tomatoes bound for Austria. Another rode into Vienna in a refrigerated railway car, where he spent seven days and nights huddled between two sides of beef, nibbling raw meat for nourishment. One Hungarian even ran a stolen train across the Austrian border at 50 m.p.h. But of all the tight spots escapees get themselves into, no one could match the Rumanian contortionist who folded her self up like a lawn chair and slipped across the border under an auto seat...