Word: stationed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...descendant of Victor Frankenstein-a level and kindly sort who is forever being ridiculed for his forebear's madness. An edict in an old will summons young Frankenstein to middle Europe, and he travels to Transylvania by train. ("Pardon me, boy," he inquires, "is this the Transylvania Station?"). He is greeted by Igor (Marty Feldman), a hunchbacked servant with a movable hump and askew eyes, and conducted to mist-shrouded Castle Frankenstein. Soon he stumbles on Victor's secret experimental notes, bound in handsome leather and stamped HOW I DID IT. "What a fruitcake!" young Frankstein cries...
...miles from the coast of Tunisia -and is still honeycombed with military tunnels built by Mussolini during World War II. Though the Italian army now has only a 20-man weather team on the island, there are rumors that NATO would like to use it as a radar station to keep track of Arab air forces in North Africa. The rumors are unofficially confirmed by military sources in Rome, and some Pantellerians are disturbed. "Any NATO base, even a radar station, could make Pantelleria a target, and I would oppose it," says Pantelleria's mayor, Dr. Salvatore Remirez...
Soviet officials claim that their displeasure with the "radio hooligans," who usually steal hard-to-get parts for their transmitters from state factories, is more practical than ideological. The music and chatter of the pirate stations are sprayed so widely across the medium-range radio frequencies that they have become a communications hazard. In Donetsk, many of the illegal transmitters were on the frequency of the railway switching station of this important industrial center. On the inland Sea of Azov, riverboat skippers complain that they cannot hear routing orders because of interference by Elvis Presley tapes. Judged even more hazardous...
Radio doctoring is roughly akin to political campaigning. The basic principle is to zap a little new life into the ailing station while undermining the competition with every dirty Tuckish trick in the doctor's book of ruses. Bennett has so successfully mastered this technique that he was once voted the radio industry's "Program Director of the Year" for ingeniously one-upping his own strategies...
...moved into station KGB in San Diego, and in 45 days the station leapfrogged from nearly last to first in the citywide audience ratings. Two years later, KGB's chief competitor, station KCBQ, hired Bennett. Within a month KCBQ had regained its supremacy among the all-important 12-to 17-year-old audience and replaced KGB in the lop slot...