Word: station
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When TIME Correspondent Dick Thompson arrived in Moscow to report this week's cover story, he told Soviet space officials that he was looking for "something special." How about an interview with the cosmonauts on board the Mir space station? he inquired. The request took the Soviets by surprise, and the immediate answer was nyet: interviews with cosmonauts must be arranged well in advance and not on an exclusive basis. Besides, Thompson was told, the cosmonauts hate shaving and making all the other preparations required before meeting the press. "My pen doesn't take pictures," Thompson replied; all he wanted...
Calling both Universities--but especially Harvard--ugly names is an old tradition, far older than Vellucci's suggestion in 1956 that the city turn Harvard Yard into a bus station. For Councilors seeking the working-class vote--like Vellucci of East Cambridge and Thomas W. Danehy of North Cambridge--the dislike of town for gown is the Cantabrigian equivalent of log cabins and hard cider...
...random poll of 15,000 people across the nation, conducted earlier this month, Dukakis recieved a 22 percent favorability rating. Fourteen percent had favorered Biden, said Jim D. Murphy, the head of Cambridge Reports, a national public opinion research center that did the poll for a local television station...
...direction, says Robertson, that steered him through negotiations to buy a defunct Virginia TV station. Starting with only $70 in cash, he created the Christian Broadcasting Network and other enterprises, such as CBN University. By the early 1970s he was one of the most prominent entrepreneurs in the rapidly growing Christian broadcasting field. Last year CBN reported $183 million in donations and revenues and employed some 4,000 people...
...have lost something since Brazil trimmed David Robinson, Danny Manning and the rest of America's college elite in the Pan Am Games. Some cry, "Whence cometh the next John McEnroe?" But others are pleased to remember that, if only by the accident of his father's army station, he cometh from Germany. McEnroe broke his old record for ugly behavior at the Open, earning $17,500 in fines and a two-month suspension. Shortly after, Czechoslovakia's Hana Mandlikova had a minor Mac attack worth $500. Asked what language Mandlikova chose to curse in, British Supervisor of Women Georgina...