Word: station
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...With such encouragement, the Yemeni dissidents lost no time. Supported by Republican tribesmen called down to San'a from the hills, they moved four tanks into the city's dusty squares, took over the Presidential Palace and, in a matter-of-fact broadcast over the government radio station, announced that Sallal had been removed "from all positions of authority." Not a shot was fired; not a single Yemeni stood up to defend Sallal. In Baghdad, Sallal asked for political asylum, sniffing heroically that "every revolutionary must anticipate obstacles and difficult situations...
Some of the southern stations in PBL's 119-station line-up opted out of the first show in advance, presumably because they were suspicious of the tone it would take. But most of them were expected back by this week. Fred Friendly, who as TV consultant to the Ford Foundation helped get the project started, confessed that he was "very disappointed" with the first broadcast. But, he added, quite properly: "Wait till next week-that's the great thing about...
Last May, the MBTA announced that it planned to adopt the so-called "Scheme D" for its extension up Massachusetts Avenue. Under this plan, it would build an expanded Harvard Square Station, to be located under the Avenue, parallel to Strauss and Lionel Halls...
...meeting in City Hall last night, MBTA engineers said it was not technically possible to do this. Instead they proposed to eliminate an underground bus tunnel at the north end of the station. Buses would then load on the surface in Flagstaff Park...
Construction of the new Harvard Square station is not scheduled to begin until the spring of 1969. The MBTA estimates it will take 22 to 24 months to complete...