Word: station
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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They poured into the vast main concourse of Manhattan's Grand Central Station 3,000 strong, wearing their customary capes, gowns, feathers and beads. They tossed hot cross buns and firecrackers, and floated balloons up toward the celestial blue ceiling. They hummed the cosmic "Ommm," snake-danced to the tune of Have a Marijuana, and proudly unfurled a huge banner emblazoned with a lazy...
President Nguyen Van Thieu rode through the hastily cleared streets of Saigon last week in his black Mer cedes and pulled to a halt inside the barbed-wire compound that Viet Nam's national television station shares with the U.S. Armed Forces network stu dios. Inside, he settled himself behind a green-cloth-covered table, permitted a makeup man to powder his high forehead, but refused to straighten his loosely knotted tie. "It will look more nat ural," he said. Then the cameras rolled and the President of South Viet Nam delivered his first major policy address...
...whole show was designed and built for the museum by the U.S. Army Exhibit Unit, based at Cameron Station in Alexandria, Va., partly to rival the Navy's popular World War II submarine that lurks in the basement. Originally, the Army proposed a balanced historical survey from the Revolutionary War to the present. But the museum wanted something livelier, with more contemporary hardware and plenty of buttons to push. The museum's objective: greater viewer participation...
Television stations do have their own guidelines on balance--some of them federal regulations. The only station involved in Harvard broadcasts, WGBH-TV, has close ties with the University and is notoriously circumspect in its presentations...
...Connecticut happily antique-hunting with your mother. You stop off at an auction and spend $3.50 on a "mystery chest." Six men help you carry it to your Ford station wagon, and when you open it, you find 40 metal film tins marked: Greed, Reels 1-40. "What a long film to make about such an unpleasant subject," your mother says as you open one of the tins. The film wound around the rusty reels is brown and moldy: fungus-like organisms have sprouted from the innumerable folds. Overcome by a powerful smell, you sneeze on it, and the brown...