Word: site
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After searching for a suitable site, U Nu found one about seven miles from Rangoon, coincidentally named Siri Mangala, and there erected his pagoda. Around it, the site of the sixth Buddhist council is nearly completed, with some two dozen buildings, including a man-made cave (to recall the setting of the first council) large enough for some 15,000 people...
...reached only by plane. Murchison likes to hunt on his 1,000-acre island in the Gulf of Mexico. He and his wife are now putting the finishing touches on a $100,000 farm near his old home town of Athens. To landscape the 2,000-acre site, he has planted 10,000 pine seedlings and 10,000 strawberry plants. Says a friend: "Murchison does almost everything by ten thousands." But when the new Athenians really want to enjoy themselves, they make for the Koon Kreek Klub, an exclusive (i.e., mostly millionaires) tract of wilderness near Athens. There, Murchison, Richardson...
Once, Richardson hauled Murchison out of an evening poker game to investigate a wildcat well he had heard about. They raced to the closely guarded site and, by bluffing guards, got near enough to smell oil. Next day they spent $50,000 buying leases in the area. Twenty-four hours later, they sold the leases...
...executive, Symes pressed for diesels, modern passenger cars, and became an outspoken critic of the Interstate Commerce Commission's "too little and too late" policy on fare increases. He is credited with clearing the way for downtown Philadelphia's Penn Center, now being built on the former site of the Pennsy's Broad Street Station. Symes predicted that the Pennsy will make money this year despite a first-quarter loss. He takes over from Walter S. Franklin, who will retire next week at 70. ¶Richard C. Doane, 56, moved up from vice president and general sales...
...reverses the long trend away from the business districts and into the suburbs. At a cost of more than $1,100,000, raised by parishioners without the help of any big philanthropist's contribution, 119 year-old Episcopal Christ Church will be razed and rebuilt on its present site (in an architectureal mixture of modern and Gothic), despite the presence of Cincinnati's nearby Skid Row. "This is a city parish," said Senior Warden Charles P. Taft (brother of the late Senator), "and it's going to stay where it belongs-downtown." * In 1953, membership...