Word: station
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Since 1967 Simon Geller, now 58, has put in 85 hours a week running an FM radio station in Gloucester, Mass., spinning the records, answering the phone, writing the ads, maintaining the transmitter-all by himself. His annual earnings from the station have never topped $5,000. Last year a group of local businessmen and politicians asked the Federal Communications Commission to transfer Geller's license to them, claiming that his all-classical-music format was "not responsive to the needs of the community." They proposed to replace it with dinner music and public service programs...
...keep the incident quiet, Western sources reported that a Soviet cosmonaut narrowly avoided a similar fate in February. The near mishap apparently resulted from an unauthorized space walk by Cosmonaut Yuri Romanenko, 33, during last spring's record-breaking 96-day orbital flight aboard the Salyut 6 space station...
Having already mentioned the scenic wonders of Washington St., we should pass on to the Premier Deli, which sits just under the subway stop at Dover Station. The Premier Deli is a great place to run away to mainly because it has some of the best, lowest-priced Jewish deli food around; the people who work there are also incredibly nice, and for some unfathomable reason the place is never very crowded. The trip out there is fun, and if you are homesick for chicken soup or the like, this should do the trick...
Chinatown, featuring fine food at generally low prices, is only a few blocks from the Essex subway station; if you want to avoid walking through the sleazy Combat Zone, however, you should take the subway only as far as the Washington St. station and then loop around the Zone to get to Chinatown...
...afoul of some unpleasant Canadian gentlemen, who seemed to think he was pushing heroin, while Mick was off chasing, well, Some Girl other than his wife, and in general playin' the field every night. The Rolling Stones (remember them, the guys who used to piss in gas station lots and who now get followed in People Magazine), had just released a classic double-live record made up mostly of fold hits but had otherwise been impotent in the studio, fielding only tepid records like Black and Blue and Only Rock and Roll...