Word: station
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Coast Guard radio station at Pungo, Va., picked up a nervous call. Speaking in broken English, the caller said that he was aboard the 26 de Julio, a small (943 tons) Cuban cargo vessel that normally hauls freight and cattle between Havana and Montreal. Would the Coast Guard al low the ship to put in to port at Norfolk "to discharge people who are seek ing political asylum...
Like many another radio-station operator, John M. Norris, of Red Lion, Pa., stopped by the Federal Communications Commission headquarters when he was in Washington recently. What made his visit notable was that Norris, who also happens to be a Bible Presbyte rian minister, brought along six asso ciates. All seven of them planted themselves outside the door of FCC Chairman Rosel Hyde, bowed their heads and began a pray-in, asking the Great Commissioner up yonder to force a decision on a TV franchise application that the FCC has been sitting...
...Norris has been waiting for action on his TV application because the FCC is trying to deal with charges that a Norris-owned radio station violated the so-called "fairness doctrine." Norris' complaint is that his case has been pending since 1965-though that is not very long in terms of the FCC's decision-making process. After all, the agency has yet to settle a dispute over a certain frequency allotment claimed by Manhattan radio station WABC and Albuquerque's KOB; that matter has been pending since 1941. And when the House Commerce Committee recently requested...
...last week was overshadowed by outer turmoil. The Maharishi's guards used barbed wire and billy clubs to fence off a horde of reporters and photographers trying to cover the retreat. After one photographer was whacked repeatedly by a gang of sentries when he wandered past the guard station, the Indian police arrived at Rishikesh to open an investigation. Because the Maharishi charges $800 for three months' room and board, the police may also declare the ashram a hotel and force the Maharishi to register guests like a holy Conrad Hilton...
...very end, for example, Nazi propagandists billed the camp at Theresienstadt in Czechoslovakia as a kind of idyllic community, though for scores of thousands-including 15,000 of the more than 1,000,000 Jewish children who perished during the holocaust-it was a way station to Auschwitz's crematoria...