Word: station
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thus "The Test" came to Britain last week. From now on, British drivers will be obliged by law to submit to random curbside "Breathalyser" tests, blowing their breath into 8-in. glass tubes containing alcohol-sensitive yellow crystals. If the crystals turn green, the next stop is the police station for a blood test or urinalysis. Anyone showing a reading of 80 milligrams of alcohol per 100 milliliters of blood faces almost certain conviction and a maximum penalty of four months in jail, a $280 fine and a one-year license suspension. Since the level is so low that some...
...tell them," notes Donley Feddersen, director of telecommunications at Indiana. They usually then work to improve their delivery. For some, there is little hope. "If you have a really bad professor, he is going to be worse on television," says the University of Wisconsin's TV Station Manager Steve Markstrom...
...successfully to keep the atoll unsullied by man. Now British scientists once again have to fight for Aldabra. The opposing force: Her Majesty's Defense Ministry, which late last year announced that Britain was weighing the possibility of developing the island as a major airbase and satellite tracking station in cooperation with...
Convinced that the time has come to overhaul its antiquated and uncomfortable system, New York City's Transit Authority recently announced a $5,800,000, six-station renovation program. It has also begun experimenting with air-conditioned, sound-proofed cars with fiber glass molded seats and hopes to cut down noise by laying rubber cushioning between the tracks and roadbed and by replacing short sections of track with longer, welded ones...
...Question, Voice of the Peopie or Televote, as it is variously known, is a simple and inexpensive scheme. The station introduces a question on the early-evening newscast and invites the viewers to register their opinions-on a mix-or-match basis-by dialing one of two telephone numbers (one for yes votes, the other for no). Ten or more receivers at the station automatically answer with a recorded "thank you" and tabulate the results, which are then announced on the late-evening news report...