Word: stationed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...accessory of two Puerto Rican girls they had apprehended earlier for shoplifting. Even though no stolen merchandise was found on Bernstein and the two girls denied knowing her, the store insisted on pressing charges. "You might have a false arrest on your hands," warned the sergeant at the police station when Bernstein was brought in and fingerprinted. False arrest it was, and the innocent Bernstein never quite recovered from the ordeal. Psychiatrists found her a "seriously ill young lady who has a tenuous social and psychological equilibrium as a result of the events of Oct. 23, 1972. She will require...
Start at the Harvard Square kiosk. Bring $1.75 and two quarters for the subway. (Test 1: If you put a quarter in the turnstyle at the subway station, how much will be left...
...week. The woe began when she set out to buy a birthday gift for the daughter of a friend, and a Beverly Hills boutique, The Rainbow, told her it could not handle her credit card. Lasser persisted and police were called. They took Mary Mary quite contrary to the station house when a routine check showed she had failed to pay two traffic fines-negligence that is frowned on in California. Next, a search of her purse and the not-so-routine discovery of a tiny vial of cocaine. Lasser, who returned to work after posting $1,631 bail, faces...
...president in Washington. As he told a group of Nieman Fellows at Harvard recently, local TV news used to be "provided grudgingly so you wouldn't lose your license." But the amount of news has lately been increased substantially because news shows now often provide half of a station's revenue. The resulting rivalry for ratings and hours reminds Leonard of the shoddy newspaper-circulation wars earlier in the century. Says he: "The stakes are high enough that there is grave danger of journalistic considerations going right out of the window...
...good news is that the happy-talk news fad is waning; many stations are cutting back on their corn. "It's only a style, and styles go out of style," says Sam Zelman, whose ABC station in Washington has recently hired a respected ' network reporter, David Schoumacher, as anchor man. But the bad news is that some stations have replaced happy talk with unhappy talk, tabloid-style, producing a constant trafficking in emotions, like closeups of people in pain being lifted into ambulances. This nightly distorted accumulation of police-beat misfortunes makes any city look like a disaster...