Word: station
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...pedals), the motorized bike is catching on rapidly in the U.S. as a practical, inexpensive form of short-haul transportation for commuters, students, the elderly and fresh-air lovers out for a spin-not to mention the suburban housewife who is reluctant to drive a gas-guzzling, nine-passenger station wagon two miles for a can of tuna. Since it whirs along on a two-stroke minimotor with less horsepower than a power mower, goes no faster than 30 m.p.h. and can be propelled by the pedals alone, the moped is clearly no motorcycle. It might best be called...
...Institute of Contemporary Art, located at 955 Boylston St., in a most unlikely-looking brick contraption--formerly a police station, but it's hard to imagine the building housing law-and-order, either--hosts consistently worthwhile shows. This week is no exception: Marie Cosindas: Polaroid Photographs, 1960-1976 at the ICA through...
...sewer pipes, six feet in diameter, will carry the sewage to the chlorination station near the Boston University Bridge for treatment. Catch basins will still dump into the river because it is mainly rain water and would not warrant the expense of treatment, Owen said...
William Dilday, comfortable as personnel manager for Boston TV station WHDH, had no intention of moving -particularly not to a small Deep South city. Says he: "I'm a product of the hustle-bustle megalopolis." In 1972, however, he could not turn down an offer to become the first black general manager of a U.S. TV station-WLBT in Jackson, Miss...
...small tobacco farmer in Virginia, Fuqua could not afford to go to college, but he did read "books, books, books" on radio and finance. At age 21 he persuaded backers to start a new radio station in Augusta, Ga., for him to run. J.B. soon talked the owner of a bottling company into selling out for a share of future profits. Wheeling and dealing, he was able to buy his own radio station in 1949; by 1953 he had branched into TV. The profits allowed him to use his spare time to serve four terms in the Georgia legislature...