Word: station
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...delegation after another as they arrived to attend the summit spectacular that marked the windup of the European Security Conference (TIME cover, Aug. 4). Fortunately for Kekkonen, most delegations showed up on time-and by air. But not all. In mid-afternoon Kekkonen raced into town to the railway station to shake hands with Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev, who had chosen to make the 18-hour trip from Moscow by train. Then Kekkonen sped back to the airport (normally a 30-minute trip, but the President made it in 13) to continue the marathon ceremony...
...smooth as a peeled egg." The Kremlin promptly hailed the joint mission with yet another barrage of pronouncements. Exulted Izvestia: SUCCESS IN OUTER SPACE FOR PEACE. The Russians had more reason to crow. At week's end the two cosmonauts who had been aloft in a Salyut space station all through the Apollo-Soyuz mission returned safely to earth after 63 days in space, a Soviet record...
...warm afterglow of the first joint American-Soviet mission, NASA officials are already talking about inviting the Russians to take part in the shuttle program, possibly by using it to visit a future Soviet space station. But as last week's precarious Apollo landing served to re-emphasize, such facile space politics carries human as well as diplomatic risks in exposing men and their fragile machines to the still formidable hazards of unforgiving space...
...month and selling briskly enough to have found a berth on the charts-is entirely devoted to scoring big on show business's own unlikely terms. Each of the record's 16 cuts is specifically designed for maximum commercial air play on a different kind of radio station. There is, for instance, a ragingly patriotic lament for country-and-western stations (in which the singer bitterly points out that "we play The Star-Spangled Banner at ball games, but still one team always loses") and for nostalgia stations a vintage 1943 situation comedy called the Albert Brooks Show...
...secret, and it is all rather exciting at the outset, After serving a tour in the Air Force while a CIA employee, Agee completed his training as a CIA officer--knowledgeable in everything from karate to secrete handwriting. In December of 1960 he was sent to his first "station": Quito, Ecuador...