Word: station
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Desert near Beersheba. A warning by the Arab guerrilla organization El Fatah that Christmas tourists would not be safe in the Holy Land led the Israeli government to station 950 security police in Jerusalem and Bethlehem and to set up roadblocks in the area...
...first break in the bridge's 2-in. by 12-in. Ibar suspension cables apparently came-at ten minutes to 5 p.m.-on the upriver, Ohio side. To Dick Kuhn, 18, a gas-station attendant, it sounded like a shotgun volley: "I thought some nuts were dusting ducks under the bridge." Then the upstream side of the roadway tilted in surreal slow motion, spilling sparks from a parted power cable into the dusk and an estimated 60 vehicles onto the weedgrown riverbank and into the 6-m.p.h. current beneath. "It looked like a snake wiggling across the water...
...triumph to the town hall, where he spoke to the crowd from a balcony. Cupping his hands like a megaphone, he shouted, "United we shall win! United we shall win!" Then, accompanied by two tanks that rumbled along as a guard of honor, Constantine went to a local radio station and recorded a 15-minute speech. Royalist pilots flew the tape south to Larissa, a town in central Greece that had the only available transmitter...
...fairly stirring call to arms. Unfortunately, few Greeks heard it. Constantine had lacked the foresight-or the troops-to seize control of a regular radio station, and his message went out only on a weak short-wave station that was almost inaudible in Athens...
...this was what they wanted, we thought they should have it," a spokesman for the station said. The students' wish was chosen from among 23,000 letters sent to the station this month in response to the promotion. Other local publications going out as gifts include a subscription to New England Teen Scene Magazine...