Word: station
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...explain to their readers just what the Davis Cup is. Only 3,000 fans (700 short of capacity) turned out to watch the matches at Porto Alegre's Leopoldina Juvenil Tennis Club. And most of them-like the bewildered program director of Porto Alegre's TV station, who was in charge of broadcasting the play-by-play-had never seen a tennis match before...
Last month Ibo passengers on West African Airways' London-to-Lagos jet were hauled off the plane and machine-gunned in the northern Nigerian way station of Kano. Pan American's New York-to-Nairobi Flight 150 lived up to the tradition. Last week a simple refueling halt enroute grew into an international incident...
...last week, Policeman Richard Kereta spotted a man running down the street. Kereta collared the suspect when he stopped to urinate under a porch. "I didn't do nothin' and I ain't answering questions," said Danny Escobedo, 28, as he was taken to the police station and plunked into a cell. Escobedo (TIME cover, April 29) well knew his rights: they were first limned in the Supreme Court decision that voided his murder admission in 1964 (Escobedo v. Illinois), and amplified last June when the court applied the rights of silence and counsel to all police...
Chicago cops had also got the message. Asked if he had questioned Escobedo, one police lieutenant pointed wordlessly at a bold-lettered sign on the station-house wall: EVERY PERSON
...Charlie Mae McQueen, 50, a domestic with an estimated IQ of 84, was arrested after a laborer was found stabbed to death in Hempstead, N.Y. Given a 20-year-to.-life sentence in 1964, Miss McQueen appealed on three grounds: >The police violated her right to counsel at the station house when they barred her daughter-her only "counsel." > The police coerced her confession by not telling her that her victim was dead -and falsely claiming that he would identify her. >The police failed to state her constitutional rights, thus voiding her confession under Miranda-if New York chose retroactivity...