Word: station
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...loyal supporter of Lyndon Johnson and one of those Democratic freshmen that Johnson would like to make sophomores, Gilligan had plenty to report. Some items: a $750 million defense contract for a local plant, $4.7 million for a housing project, $285,000 to help convert the old Union Station into a museum. For a number of such boons, he claimed personal credit, notably State Department sponsorship of a world tour by the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra...
...Boston, CBS affiliate WEEI became the first New England radio station to endorse state candidates. Its selections included Republicans Governor John Volpe for re-election and Attorney General Edward Brooke for the U.S. Senate...
...sprawled by the family's blue Triumph sports car in the garage next to their home in Cincinnati's suburb of Clifton. Some time during the night before, she had returned home from her daughter's nearby apartment. When she got out of her station wagon, she was clubbed on the head so hard that her dental plate popped out in the driveway. She was dragged by the heels into the garage. She was strangled with the cord of the red bathrobe she wore. She was raped, and her limp body was carefully arranged in a position...
Moving with the velocity of a milk train, the proposed merger of the Pennsylvania Railroad and the New York Central into a single 20,000-mile system to be known as the Penn Central rickety-racked past another way station last week. Led by the Erie-Lackawanna, eight smaller Eastern railroads* had requested a three-judge federal court in New York to delay the merger's effective date. The court, by a 2-1 vote, sided with the Penn Central...
Thanks to fortunate topography, the river will be diverted through a series of small lakes and dikes to a point 22 miles downstream, then dumped 1,040 ft. into a power station buried in solid rock. Above it will rise a new lake one-third the size of Lake Ontario...