Word: station
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Back to Work Special" trains they trooped into Washington's Union Station: men in open-necked sports shirts, women in spring prints, many wearing blue and white badges marked "A.F.L.-C.I.O. Conference on Unemployment-Jobs for All." Already, some members of the Toledo delegation were looking slightly green; something they had eaten aboard their train soon laid 100 of them low, sent 28 to hospitals. Ohio's Republican Congressman William Hanes Ayres of Akron was on hand at the depot with coffee, doughnuts, and a sign saying: SEE YOUR CONGRESSMAN FIRST. HE CAN HELP YOU MOST...
...British have not been happy to see Germany replace them recently as Europe's No. 1 trading power. A spate of war movies, a new rash of generals' memoirs and war-adventure tales, the unearthing last week of a live German bomb beside the Thames near .Waterloo Station, all keep alive old memories. Some might acknowledge that the moment was not propitious for old grudges, but the Tory Telegraph, for one, was adamant: "Dr. Adenauer's verbal explosion, tactless as it may seem, has the virtue of forcing both countries to face unwelcome truths while there...
...missed, he tried to climb inside the carriage. As Michiko took refuge across Akihito's lap, two liveried footmen shoved the youth aside; half a dozen policemen knocked him to the ground and then led him away. He proved to be one Kensetsu Nakayama, a former gas-station attendant who had failed to pass two university entrance examinations. "I only wanted Akihito to get out and talk to me," he insisted at police headquarters. "I wanted to convince him that Japan should be a republic." Unaware of what genteel penury the Japanese royal family lives in, he also seemed...
...play may be done live and in color, but it is more probable that both will be video-taped, Henning said. Video-taping is a new process which equals the quality of live telecasting, he explained. The Boston station will carry its program at 6:30 on a Sunday evening, which Henning called "prime" air time, and the New Haven broadcast will be at 6:30 p.m. on a weekday...
...against the students. Among those then planning to sue was Carnegie Teaching Fellow Frederic Hammond, who was arrested and manhandled on the steps of Battell Chapel when he emerged after playing the chapel organ. Several students have signed statements claiming that they were beaten while being taken to the station in squad cars...