Word: stationed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...King and custom's duties. Last year the rusty old fishing boat Dorchester turned up in the bay with six tons of marijuana hidden aboard, then departed leaving a web of mystery, gangland murder and suicide that narcotics agents have yet to unravel. Westward, the old naval air station at Quonset Point is now the sprawling headquarters for oil-drill teams working the Baltimore Canyon...
...also introduced to Lyle, the good-hearted, simple-minded proprietor of the gas station across the way, and Clark, the mercenary owner of the restaurant...
...contrast with these high-flying Soviet space efforts, NASA is still struggling to save the unoccupied Skylab space station from plunging prematurely to earth. Late last year, Skylab began to show a dangerous loss of altitude, a byproduct of atmospheric effects caused by unexpectedly strong sunspot activity during the current solar cycle. Skylab's descent is being hastened by its wobbling motion, which increases friction as the ship moves through stray molecules of atmosphere in its path. Ground controllers twice tried unsuccessfully to stabilize the craft, hoping to keep it aloft at least until...
...Laker ticket office outside London's Victoria Station, 1,500 young people queued up for days to buy tickets to New York. As shown in the photo on the facing page, they slept on the sidewalk under makeshift plastic tents while it rained all week. On Thursday, with conditions worsening every hour, the British Civil Aviation Authority moved. The strict regulations rationing sales of low-fare tickets were bent, allowing airlines to use up their August, September and October stand-by quotas now in order to get stranded Americans home. Still, it will take weeks to move...
Though most New Yorkers' initial reaction was that the law is probably unenforceable, retailers reported brisk sales of sanitary devices ranging from 15? disposable cardboard shovels to $11 long-handled pooper scoopers equipped with a flashlight for nocturnal emitters. One apartment complex unveiled a canine comfort station, whose white-tiled premises were dutifully christened by Toto (né Megs), Dorothy's dog in the Broadway musical The Wiz. On the first day of the law, only 22 litter tickets were issued; yet to close observers of sidewalks and parks, there was a marked diminution in dog litter...