Word: station
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...good part of his nine-hour train trip north to Paris, Ike was closeted with Secretary of State Christian Herter, who had come down from Paris to meet him and brief him on NATO matters. At Paris, about 500 people jostled into the Lyon Station at 10:30 p.m. to watch as Eisenhower and President de Gaulle shook hands. It was a businesslike welcome, with little pomp, and after they chatted for a few moments the two men parted for the night. It was late, and ahead for Ike were three hard days of talks with other Western leaders, brief...
...Moslem resistance has flickered across Sinkiang. In the Altai mountains, tribesmen fought Red troops for two months. From Kara Kash came word of a 23-year-old Moslem woman called Pashakhan, who, waving a star-and-crescent flag, led a crowd from a mosque to sack the local police station and to fight on with captured weapons for two weeks before being taken and shot...
...Star look much like the usual daily newspaper. Roberts is rumpled and jowly, the very image of a ward politician-a role he loves to play. The building, a three-story pile of dun brick veneered with half a century's grime, looks more like a police station than a newspaper office. The Star's front page, a somber, forbidding block of type only faintly relieved by narrow headlines and a picture or two, has all the eye appeal of Webster's dictionary...
With his wife and two sons, Writer Seamon lives in Port Washington, L.I., talks from his den to people all over the world through his single-sideband amateur radio station. One result of his hobby: putting through phone "patches" so servicemen overseas can talk to their families; last month he helped a professor in South Africa get a message to his son in The Bronx...
Meanwhile, adding fresh green Ivy to the executive tradition, Stanton named a new president: 41-year-old James Aubrey Jr., a 1941 Princeton graduate (and football end) who worked on West Coast magazines (Street & Smith, Conde Nast) and a local CBS station before getting his first network job just three years...