Word: station
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
N.C.A.A. FOOTBALL (ABC, 4-7:15 p.m.). The S.M.U. Mustangs meet the Texas Aggies at College Station, Texas, in the first televised game of the new season...
...Your POW camp training article [Sept. 1] revived memories of similar well-meaning efforts during and after the Korean War. Hardly a base, post or station was without its "torture and brainwash" school. All carried on with the best of intentions, of course. However, when all the evidence was in as to what actually went on in the POW camps of North Korea, it transpired that extremes of physical violence were the exceptions rather than the rule, occurring, it seems, to something like less than 1% of the prisoners. Mistreatment was far more apt to take psychological rather than physical...
Into the Void. Off they went in the B-25 climbing through the clouds and circling north over the lake before heading back toward the field. When Pilot Karns thought he was in approximate position, he radioed the Federal Aviation Administration radar station at Oberlin, Ohio, for a radar vector. The Oberlin operator announced: "You are three miles west of Ortner." "Fine," radioed Karns. "I'm releasing my jumpers." Looking down, all anyone on the plane could see was clouds, broken here and there by patches of brownish green. Both the U.S. Parachute Association and the FAA have regulations...
...losing interest in the newspaper business and wanted to set their estate affairs in order. One group of stockholders tried to hold on to a few papers, but Thomson was adamant about getting them all. The only thing he did not get was the chain's one radio station, WHBC, in Canton; the 1912 Communications Act forbids an alien to hold a station license.* "We gave the Thomson group first chance," says Brush-Moore President G. Gordon Strong, "because we knew they wish to preserve this organization intact and operate the papers with a maximum degree of local autonomy...
...supply the Hong Kong Hilton with a 1,000-ex-tension automatic phone system. Another rich market opening up is in worldwide satellite communications; ITT (after A.T. & T. the largest stockholder in the Communications Satellite Corp.) recently won the contract to build Indonesia's first satellite ground station...