Word: station
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...type. He didn't seem embarrassed about jerking his beard down so that he could be heard (speaking English) more distinctly. A police car turned up to drive him away, and one cop confided to a bewildered little girl that he was taking Santa into custody at the police station. Unphased, the urchin next to her started reeling off requests for the cop to pass on to his ward with the crooked beard...
...made their move before dawn Tuesday when the paratroopers seized the country's three major air bases and two other air-force installations, along with Air Force headquarters in downtown Lisbon. The moves were well-coordinated, and the leftists, who had earlier taken over Lisbon's television station, began broadcasting anti-government propaganda. The rebels then waited for President Francisco da Costa Gomes, known to some of his detractors as "the Portuguese marshmal-low," to give in to their demands, which included the ouster of Air Force Chief José Morais da Silva...
Song and Dance. At the Lisbon TV station, one leftist officer was appealing for popular support for the rebels when his eyes started to wander nervously from the camera, as if his TelePrompTer had gone berserk. "They tell me I have to get off," he said. "It's probably for technical reasons ... No, it's not?" He was cut off, and Lisbon transmission was taken over by a station 175 miles to the north in Oporto, a conservative stronghold. The program switched from the hortatory sounds of rebellion to the happy song and dance of Danny Kaye...
...reported TIME's Richard Bernstein, who visited Bangladesh last week, Dacca appeared relatively calm. "Martial law continues - and probably will for months," cabled Bernstein. "Major General Zia-Ur, who dissolved Parliament, now says elections will not be held until 1977. Strategic points like the Bangladesh radio station are sealed off with barbed-wire fences and guarded by small groups of rather bored soldiers armed with M-1s and machine guns. In the countryside, sporadic gunfire can be heard at night, and there are reports of continued fighting between pro-and anti-Mujib factions in the army. The political violence...
Gregg A. Demar '76, president of WHRB, said yesterday that WHRB has changed over the years from a station broadcasting only to the Harvard community to an FM station serving the greater Boston area. "We can only hope for continued success in the future," Demar said...