Word: station
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ignored in the American press between radicals faithful to the party's Marxist program and conservatives. The party's rightward tilt is unmistakable, exemplified by its July decision to resign from the Goncalves cabinet over workers' seizures of Republica, the party's newspaper, and Renascenza, the Church's radio station. While the PSP and the liberal press characterized the seizures as Communist plots to suppress "free speech", few involved workers--only two at Republica--were Communist Party (PCP) members...
...pupils stayed home, although most of the 300 blacks assigned to the school made the long ride from the city. Many of the black students were nervous as they approached their new schools. As one busload of blacks from Shawnee Junior High School in Louisville drew up to Valley Station High in the suburbs, Leslie Lacy, 17, commented anxiously, "I think I'll paint myself white and go back to Shawnee...
...Dodge Aspen. They are part of an ambitious effort by the company to attract more of the kind of higher-income-bracket, relatively recession-resistant customers who have been buying the successful new $5,000 Chrysler Cordoba. The Volare and Aspen lines will include sport coupe, sedan and station-wagon models, each featuring all-independent suspension to give big-car driving feel...
...Blessing of the Tools is a Labor Day tradition at St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church in Fairfax Station, Va., and this year the man who had come to do the honor was the Pope's ambassador to U.S. Catholicism. For Archbishop Jean Jadot, who logs more air miles than President Ford, it was a typical visit to small-town America. Jadot has given a speech in Nashville's Grand Ole Opry House (saying a few good words for country music), climbed aboard a corn combine during a rural-life conference in Iowa, and said Mass...
Party Power. Korda describes office behavior like a pop anthropologist. In the first phase of business parties, he says, the most powerful people will station themselves in the corners of the room, attracting a circle of nonpowerful listeners. "Once this has been accomplished, they move naturally toward each other and close ranks, the powerful separating themselves instinctively from the non-powerful" (see bottom diagram). Advises Korda: this is the moment for the underlings to break away. "It is a sign that the period of familiarity is over...