Word: station
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...early morning after the Central Park gun battle, Saidallah Sirhan, 36, brother of Robert Kennedy's accused assassin, Sirhan Sirhan, pulled in to the Pasadena police station and said that while he was driving home on the Pasadena Freeway, someone had fired twice on his car after it was boxed in by two other cars. Police found two .38-cal. slugs embedded in Sirhan's 1955 De Soto. But some police officers were skeptical of Sirhan's tale...
...beer bottles. The police charged with truncheons and hauled many of the students into the store's cellars, where they were severely beaten. Fighting spread all over the main streets of Zurich and dragged on until dawn. Next evening, there were more clashes when students stoned a police station where 20 youths were being held. In all, about 50 students and police were injured in the clashes. It was a rude awakening for Zurich, which so prides itself on its peaceful setting that its road signs announce: "A quiet town has fewer sick people...
After speaking for tighter gun-control laws during an evening talk show on Manhattan's educational TV station WNDT, former Astronaut John H. Glenn Jr., 46, was strolling out of the studio when an unscheduled interruption blared from the monitor. A flock of 20-odd not-so-gentle love children suddenly burst into the studio, pummeled the guards, twisted the director's arm, and took over the program, shouting slogans and obscenities while the cameras still looked on. The mayhem did not end until Manhattan's police, doing their own thing, arrived and collared the unruly invaders...
...French railway station a woman bids goodbye to a friend. Then she boards the train-and sneaks out on the other side of the platform. A classic Hitchcock opening for a film that is missing only one vital ingredient: Alfred Hitchcock. In the maestro's place, however, is his greatest disciple, Director Francois Truffaut, who considers Hitchcock "an artist of anxiety" to be placed alongside Kafka...
...practical preliminary step toward planetary voyages, suggested Spacecraft Center Director Robert R. Gilruth, would be to orbit a giant, cigar-shaped capsule around the earth in the mid-1970s. The big space station, said Gilruth, would be 615 ft. long, carry a crew of 100, and rotate end-over-end 31 times a minute to create an artificial gravity for those on board. Freed from the earth's atmosphere, astronomers on the station could peer through telescopes for an undistorted view of the destination of future space trips. How would this ambitious multimillion-dollar project be financed? An idea...