Word: station
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rostrum and all the microphones down to the ground. No one was hurt, and the two men, later identified as members of the American Nazi Party (Arlington, Va.), were wrestled away by marshals as the Nazis yelled, "Commies, commies, Vietcong commies," into a microphone obligingly held by a radio station technician...
...Negro demonstrator was screaming hysterically at a Negro soldier: "How can you do this to us? Don't you realize you're fighting for Wall Street? How can you do it?" The Negro soldier spoke to his sergeant, then was replaced at his station...
...Reflecting Pool was something akin to a Be-In on the banks of the Charles save that the preparations were more elaborate. Some 50 Negro D.C. policemen were grouped on the far-side of the gathering demonstrators getting a pep-talk from a white police sergeant; a Red Cross station was set up by the Army as a constant reminder that the authorities expected trouble. As the crowd grew, the entertainment and speeches started--everyone seemed to be wandering around aimlessly looking for someone...
...Cheats." Still, the game has proved so popular that 32 stations in the U.S. are now polling their audiences on everything from Ho Chi Minh to miniskirts, world trade to the World Series. When Station KSTR of Minneapolis-St. Paul asked whether the clergy should take part in civil rights marches, the crush of calls jammed the station's lines and short-circuited the switchboard of the nearby Midway Hospital. Of the 4,326 callers who did get through, 62% held that clergymen should stay in the pulpit and off the pavement...
Perhaps the most pertinent question was posed by radio station KQRS in Minneapolis, which, to meet the competition of two local TV polls, started its own. After running the quiz for a few weeks, the station asked its listeners if they thought such telephone surveys were valid. When 82% voted no, KQRS ditched the poll...