Word: stationed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tactics such as these: a leading London phoneticist determined to translate a flower girl into a "duchess" so effectively that, he wagers, no one will be able to tell. But Eliza, the Cinderella duchess, is not "fit for" either class. Not totally accepted by those of her new station in life, totally unable to return to the life of the city streets, she is forced to brave the world alone. By chasing after a false illusion of middle class splendor, Shaw implies, the poor have lost everything they ever knew, including themselves...
...looking for something to watch tonight, the selection is much better than usual. Channel 2, the PBS station, offers Part 2 of an interesting dramatic series set in the 1880s. The show, entitled Best of Families, will appear regularly for several weeks, tracing the startling transformations wrought upon American society between 1880 and the turn of the century. Everyone in History 1621 should tune in, 9 p.m. on Channel...
...homes are being erected all over the reservation--cheap homes, but adequate and efficient for people who have historically used hand-made shacks with no plumbing or heating. A solar-heated house goes up on the hill overlooking the bay, a sewage treatment plant churns, an electric power station is being planned. A fish processing plant is nearly operational. A recreation league is being organized. A health center is working to provide the Passamaquoddies with good medical care. David Francis has been around long enough to see the improvement. So was another Passamaquoddy, Albert Sockabasin. "When...
...biggest man hunt in an attempt to track down the murderers. Three million WANTED posters flooded the country, carrying the photos of the ten women and six men suspected of being connected with the Schleyer killing. These faces were splashed across newspaper front pages and broadcast by every TV station. The prime suspect was Friederike Krabbe, 27, who is believed to have ordered the industrialist's murder. Police vans, meanwhile, began cruising through cities, their loudspeakers blaring pleas for every citizen to aid in the search. Barricades sprouted across roads and police checked identity papers; traffic was snarled...
Goldman's project may be unable to do anything about that, but it has already scored its first notable success. Following a protest from N.S.P., Oakland television station KTVU stopped showing Porky Pig cartoons. That's all, folks...