Word: station
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...order. Reviewing the case, the Supreme Court majority took the position that King could have appealed the injunction and might have won the right to march; instead he chose to defy the law. Wrote Justice Potter Stewart: "No man can be judge in his own case, however exalted his station, however righteous his motives, and irrespective of his race, color, politics or religion...
Among the world's temples of high finance, none has risen to such eminence in such an unpretentious way as the Switzerland-based Bank for International Settlements. Its five-story, stone-faced headquarters, sandwiched between a tourist agency and a watch shop across from the railway station in Basel, still looks like the second-class hotel it once was. Travelers who often enter its musty lobby hoping to change their money find neither tellers nor vaults nor any cash at all. The B.I.S. keeps elsewhere its $1 billion gold hoard and $1.7 billion in other assets...
...cross-circuited with a low-voltage line. The Philadelphia Electric Co. had twice warned system dispatchers to anticipate a heavy load and split it between two lines, but the orders, for some reason, were disregarded. The short circuit automatically shut down Philadelphia Electric's Muddy Run power station. Inexplicably, two other generating plants in Pennsylvania and New Jersey shut down, and the system fell dead...
There are more houses like it in Pougny, on the French side of the French-Swiss border; near Grenoble there is a similarly constructed new restaurant, and soon there will be a hotel, a psychiatric clinic and a church, all in France, plus a gas station in Belgium and a resort hotel on Minorca-every one built along egg-shaped lines...
Explorer Telescopes. The arrangement is equally agreeable for Minneapolis-based General Mills, which has always shown plenty of zeal in pushing Wheaties. No sooner did the cereal come into being in 1924 than the Washburn Crosby Co., General Mills's onetime parent company, bought into a local radio station, used it to advertise its new product. The cereal was promoted by one of radio's first singing commercials ("Have you tried Wheaties?"), a pioneer coast-to-coast radio serial ("Skippy") and some of the earliest premium offers for kids anxious to be the first on their blocks with...