Word: station
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...well satisfied with the results of this meeting. We have kept the promises that we gave you." In sympathetic Yugoslavia, Radio Belgrade announced that Dubček had "successfully defended more than he has had to concede." Describing the dimensions of the setback to Soviet foreign policy, the station said that the campaign of pressure against the Czechoslovaks was "a blasphemy, a heavy political blunder and a failure...
...Hahn became the most revered elder statesman of what had once been Europe's proudest scientific establishment. He collected many awards, including a Nobel Prize in chemistry for his discovery of fission. But he always accepted such honors with characteristic humility. Visiting an atomic reactor or nuclear power station, he would shrug modestly: "It has all been the work of others." In a soon-to-be-published 300-page memoir, he brushed off his historic work in fewer than five pages. Last week, at the age of 89, the father of fission died peacefully in his beloved...
...newscast on Pasadena's radio station KRLA led off with the story of the Pope's encyclical on birth control. Then followed the strains of an oboe, flute and English-horn trio that sounded like the walk-in to a commercial jingle-until listeners heard a solemn voice chanting...
...ballad was the work of KRLA's "staff poet-singer," Len Chandler, who regularly performs his own tendentious commentary to the most dramatic news of the hour. Chandler's verses are just one of the innovations by the staff of KRLA Station Manager John Barrett, 35, which have given an otherwise ordinary rock station a young audience of more than 1,500,000 and put it in the top three among the 61 stations jamming the metropolitan Los Angeles airwaves...
Correspondent Roland Flamini, who was sunning himself in Malta prior to reassignment from Vienna to Chicago, responded to an urgent cable and within hours was back on station in rainy Vienna. There he kept a sharp eye on events and reactions in all of Eastern Europe and helped to speed files to New York from Prague, where 126 correspondents in the Alcron Hotel vied for the use of one Telex machine and five telephone booths staffed by a single switchboard operator...