Word: stationed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hospital with chemotherapy and cobalt treatments. Now they say it's regressed." It is the beginning of another day in Evanston, Wyo. (pop. 4,848; elevation 6,748 ft.), and while Shepherd talks, the oil and water stains on the cement driveway of the A & A Texaco station are turned to rainbows by the morning...
...beleaguered guardsmen protected themselves by holding twelve of the town's leading citizens hostage. And in Monimbó, an Indian barrio of 12,000 people on the outskirts of Masaya, angry rebels who have been battling the National Guard almost daily since February finally overran the local guardia station and slaughtered its two officers and a dozen enlisted...
...Pfeiffer will use her extensive Government contacts on behalf of NBC and will be its spokesman in Washington at a crucial time-hearings begin next year on a sweeping proposal for deregulation of the communications industry that would, among other things, provide for indefinite terms for radio-and TV-station licenses. In time, Pfeiffer is expected to become involved in all aspects of NBC policymaking and administration...
Finally last week, on the day after the Schleyer memorial services, Willy Peter Stoll's luck ran out. A woman recognized him as he sat sipping a beer in a nondescript Chinese restaurant near the Düsseldorf railroad station. She alerted the police. Minutes later, two plainclothesmen walked into the restaurant, sat down, studied their quarry for a couple of minutes. Then they rose, approached Stoll and ordered him to surrender. Dropping his hands like a Western gunfighter, Stoll reached for a 9-mm. pistol concealed in his jacket. Before he could draw...
...past to have been much worse for the game. But they fear that an overabundance of lucre has choked off thoughtful cultivation of the sport's foundations. Banned from such prestigious but amateurs-only events as Wimbledon and Forest Hills, professional tennis players once barnstormed in station wagons to play for a cut of the gate at a high school gym. Today's stars are not only welcome at the big-name championships, they are free to jet from high-paying tournaments to still higher paying exhibitions to the stratospheric payoffs of staged-for-TV challenge matches. Once...