Word: station
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...clock commuter rush of the Chicago and North Western Station, Rosalynn Carter, rustling up votes for her husband, was confronted with a surly question: "Are you running for First Lady?" She looked the man in the eye and retorted, with a trace of defiance, "Yes!" She added, "There are so many things that need to be done in this country-so much in mental health, for the elderly. It excites me to think that I could help." The hostile questioner pressed her to justify why her promises had anything to do with JimmyCarter's campaign. "Because," she said evenly...
...sign that the transfer of power may go smoothly is that there has been almost no talk among blacks of revenge on the whites, and there is a surprising lack of exultation. What most concerned a black gas-station attendant, for example, were the rivalries among the various nationalist leaders. And while a hefty black laundress insisted that Smith "must go, for he is a racist," she emphasized that "most Europeans [whites] must stay, otherwise we will have no jobs. We must show them we can run things and not frighten them...
Pauley, the talk went, just might have been holding out for more money after she heard what NBC last week offered Kelly Lange, the barmy blonde weather girl at the network's Los Angeles station and an also-ran for the Today job. What actually happened, however, was that NBC officials went into a lather when they learned that Lange was being lured by the ABC body-snatchers who had stolen Walters from them. The network's brass hurriedly rushed into prolonged negotiations and promised to double Lange's salary, to $200,000, and give...
...hotel several blocks away and drive off. He follows their car for a couple of blocks, but doesn't reach the hotel. A patrol car stops him and arrests him for soliciting sex acts from the two police decoys who reported this version of their conversation at the station that night...
Although the staff primarily sees the Center as a drop-in clinic, Bolker said "we want to emphasize that we don't think of ourselves as a service station (to turn B papers into...