Word: stationed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...almost an hour, while the law shivered under blankets only yards away, the plane sat motionless; the only sound was the static of radio chatter emanating from people who watched from other vantage points near by. Then three rented vans, a Mercedes sedan, a Chevrolet station wagon and a Ford van pulled up to the plane, and the unloading of burlap bales of highly prized Colombian marijuana began. Two hours later, with half the plane's cargo removed, the police charged from the bushes, acting so quickly that they captured without a struggle all the handlers, aircraft personnel...
...that seemed to be coming evenly from all parts of the sky. When they heard about Dicke's work, however, and compared the frequency and intensity of their radiation with his predictions, the mystery faded. Like radio listeners pulling out of the night the signal of a faraway station, they had picked up the hissing echoes of creation...
Storybook corporate career woman, considered for top job at either HUD, HEW or Commerce . . . Age 44 . . . Put herself through University of Maryland . . . Joined IBM as trainee in 1955 . . . In her twenties ran IBM's missile-tracking station in Bermuda . . . Took leave in 1966 to be first woman White House Fellow; worked for HUD Chief Robert Weaver. Returned to IBM as executive assistant to former Chairman Thomas Watson Jr. . . . Starting in 1972, served as vice president for public and government relations . . . Considered firm as well as charming...
...Amoco station across the railroad tracks from the peanut-warehouse office is the only public place in Plains, Ga., where you can drink beer. The suds flowed furiously last Monday night, and the good ole boys were having a great ole time: Billy Carter, 39, owner of the gas station and younger brother of the President-elect of the U.S., was throwing the party he had promised, win or lose. And, for the second time in two years, Billy had come up a loser. By a 90-to-71 margin, he was defeated for the mayoralty of Plains by Incumbent...
...doubt. Billy Carter not only drinks beer on Sundays, he gives it away at the service station in circumvention of Georgia's blue laws. After 5:30 p.m. on workdays, he spends time with a few six-packs and a roomful of cronies...