Word: station
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mounts for the last charge, he must be revered, not because he is himself endearing, but because the alternative is a world of half-smoked cigarettes and tooting car horns. He is the only character in the movie who is more than the stock figure of a class or station...
...Randy Matson Day" in College Station, Texas, last week, and Texas A. & M.'s best-known student was a little embarrassed by all the fuss. "I haven't felt so much pressure since the Olympics," he said. Whereupon he stepped into the shotput ring and, on his first try, heaved the 16-lb. metal ball 71 ft. 5½ in. - breaking his own world record by a fantastic...
...Britain's Takis, 42, is a philosophic Greek who began his odyssey into space-age media in 1954, while waiting at the Calais station. He became fascinated by "the signalization of the railways. I thought how dramatic this 'signalization' was, how necessary a part of our century." Ever since, he has been putting together odds and ends of old army tanks, trucks and planes to form cryptic beacons, panels of flashing green, violet and red aircraft-landing lights, needles that sing with an electronic Zorba whine...
...June 1962, Knickerbocker News Reporter Edward Swietnicki wrote a front-page story about a Negro post-office clerk who had been arrested for disorderly conduct and been treated at a hospital for multiple head bruises and other injuries. The clerk claimed police had beaten him at the station. The grand jury opened an investigation, but it soon became apparent that the machine-controlled, overwhelmingly Democratic panel was interested only in investigating Reporter Swietnicki. Questioned for hours on end by District Attorney John Garry II, Swietnicki said at one point that he had discussed his story beforehand with his managing editor...
...Korea self-sufficient in fertilizer, are Lee's biggest project yet. His favorite enterprise is the Joong-Ang Mass Communications Center, headquartered in a nine-story Seoul office building where Lee works surrounded by teak-paneled walls and a collection of Oriental pottery. Joong-Ang includes a television station, South Korea's most popular radio station and the Joong-Ang Ilbo, a daily newspaper with a circulation of 325,000. "Mass communications," says Lee, "are the best way to prevent bad politics." They also happen to be a pretty good channel through which South Korea's biggest...