Word: station
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Golf Course. Dial phones-some 3,000 of them-are being installed, and Cavalrymen can tune in to Big Valley Radio, a twelve-hour FM station built by the troopers from scrounged equipment and featuring mainly rock 'n' roll tapes contributed by the men themselves. In the heat of An Khe's sunny clime, ice is still a luxury. When the Cav arrived, a local entrepreneur hauled in ice from Pleiku every day, most of it melting before he got there but the remainder providing a cool profit. Then one day he failed to show...
...weeks, Peking-bound trains, buses and trucks have been crammed with groups of excited students and teachers. They are crowding into the city's university halls and football stadiums, into railroad-station waiting rooms and public squares "to exchange revolutionary experiences" and listen to lectures on the means of spreading Mao Tse-tung's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution across the land. Peking, in fact, has become a giant revolving revival meeting as tens of thousands have come to town, then, rearmed with Mao's think, have gone home, often accompanied by cadres of Peking students to ensure...
...refugees from Red Guard terror who trickled out of China last week must have done a double take as they reached Hong Kong. There, queued up in Kowloon Station beside the mid-morning train to Canton were hundreds of Chinese waiting to go home. There were teen-age girls in distinctly non-proletarian blouses, old men in bourgeois pin-striped suits, and women whose arms were draped with heavy jackets in anticipation of the chilly Chinese autumn. The refugees-in-reverse were overseas Chinese from Indonesia, some 4,000 of whom have fled back to the mainland in recent months...
...city's better than your city. In the Middle Ages, they proved it by erecting the biggest cathedral, in the Renaissance, by commissioning the grandest city hall, in the 19th century, by bolting together the most cavernous railroad station. In the 20th century, cities began putting their pride in the sky and, until lately at least, the sky scraper sufficed as the symbol. Now the high-rise office has an even skinnier cousin, the cloud-busting television tower-generally equipped with a slowly rotating restaurant...
Schrotel ran a model department. His men were ordered to say "sir" or "madam" when stopping a motorist, were warned against swaggering up to the car or leaning on the door. In the central station house, Schrotel had lists of " the prisoners' constitutional rights stenciled in black on the walls of every cell and even above the pay telephone. The chief's apprentice program enabled young high school graduates to serve as police cadets while they were going to college...