Word: station
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mirror has gone on a shopping spree, snatching up publishing companies right and left. Today, the Times Mirror is one of the nation's largest publishers of paperback books; it also puts out Bibles and dictionaries, art and medical books, airline flight manuals, slide rules and even service-station road maps. It publishes the San Bernardino (Calif.) Sun and Evening Telegram and, south of Los Angeles, the Orange Coast Daily Pilot. According to Times Mirror President Albert Casey, it is the company's ambition to double its earnings in the next five years. In 1966, they stood...
That was how the news looked to Barney Stutesman one recent morning as he hovered over Detroit in a helicopter outfitted with white carpeting and white Naugahyde upholstering. A onetime U.S. Army pilot who is now a traffic watcher for radio station WXYZ, Stutesman is one of a growing tribe of hardy newsmen (and women) who hop into a Cessna or helicopter in the early-dawn hours, brave snow, fog and smog to report the traffic below and watch for fastbreaking news stories like fires and explosions...
...cannot do much to unsnarl traffic. Even so, the reports can have a tranquilizing effect on a harassed driver; at least someone knows of his plight and seems to care. After her husband was stuck in the blizzard of '67 for five hours, a Chicago housewife wrote radio station WGN's two watchers: "How can I tell you boys just how grateful our city is? Bless you and your wings...
...could not find enough skilled Negroes to fill the jobs. Realizing that "integration without preparation is frustration"-now one of his favorite slogans-he decided to set up his own training program, and with other Negro ministers, established the Opportunities Industrialization Center (O.I.C.) in an abandoned North Philadelphia police station...
...keep Rambler's price low, A.M.C. will forgo annual styling changeovers, thus saving retooling costs. But Chapin does not intend to economize all the way. Two sporty specialty cars are in the works, and this week three jazzed-up Rebel station wagons will be introduced. Main features: "simulated natural tan leather" side trim for Midwest and Southwest markets, "black camera grain" in the East, and "bleached teakwood" on the West Coast and in Florida...