Word: thompson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Visiting Stockholm four years ago, Dallas earth-moving Contractor Robert F. Thompson flipped on a hotel radio, found that he had struck Dullsville. Being a government monopoly, Swedish radio had a heavy accent on culture-worthy classics. What the Swedes really needed, felt Thompson, was a competing station offering an easier U.S. blend of pop music, commercials and more news. Dallas Tycoon Thompson decided to provide it. Buying a 3,300-ton German coastal freighter, Thompson renamed it Bon Jour, recruited deckhands and a disk jockey, surrounded them with broadcasting equipment at a total estimated cost...
Ostensibly to discourage Soviet propaganda ships from using the same trick, Parliament made it a crime for Swedes to supply ships such as Bon Jour with either naval stores or advertising copy. Cut off from both necessities, Thompson hauled down his flag. Two other radio ships were also affected. One of them gave up. But the owner of the third, Mrs. Britt Wadner, said defiantly that she had three months' supplies of stores and commercials, would keep on broadcasting...
...Said Thompson last week, declining to disclose how much he had made or lost on the venture: "For the sake of international relations, we will stoke up Bon Jour and putt off into the night." Building up steam, Thompson achieved at least one thing. Though it still bans commercials, the state radio is playing noticeably lighter music...
...waited, famed publicity-sensitive Trial Lawyer Louis (My Life in Court) Nizer, who entered the case without fee at the last minute, brought tears even to the eyes of opposing Assistant State's Attorney James Thompson with the eloquence of his plea that Crump be spared because he was "a rehabilitated man, a newborn man, a transformed personality." Nizer read from 57 affidavits attesting to Crump's change of character, including one from the warden−the culmination of a massive public drive by columnists, clergymen and penologists to establish the principle that prison can reform a killer...
...Forced to cancel his assault on John Cobb's world land-speed record (394.196 m.p.h.) when officials at Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats ruled the surface too dangerously rough for his 3,200-h.p. super-hot-rod Challenger I, California's Mickey Thompson turned up instead in a 1962 Pontiac, smashed 50 U.S. stock-car records-despite a blundering pit crew that set the engine afire by spilling oil on it and then proceeded to spray Thompson in the face with gasoline. Over one kilometer from a flying start, the Pontiac was clocked at 153.64 m.p.h...