Word: site
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Landsberg's circuit was ready days before the blast, but his big trouble began just before H-hour. The AEC's power supply at the test site failed, so the telecast switched to a camera on Charleston Peak. When the power on News Nob came on again, the cameras did not have enough warmup time to catch the explosion. Result: TV Announcer Fred Henry described the first three minutes from ten miles away, while cameras recorded it from a distance of 57 miles...
...with this event, the season called Spring is officially ushered in, with its Things to Do, Places to Go, and Books to Forget. For the enterprising young observer or participant the site today is Wellesley; the gaming grounds of tomorrow will be the entire eastern coast. It is Open Season...
While the work carried on at Dana House was confined to magnetic and meteorological observations, the work at the site of the present Cambridge Observatory was what set the Department on the road to its brilliant astronomical research...
...acres of land on which it now rises remain of the original grounds. Before the coming of the Comet of 1843 the site, on Summer House Hill, just west of Radcliffe dorms, was purchased with the idea of erecting a better building when sufficient funds were available...
Newest of the eight observatories is the station at Sacramento Peak. New Mexico, which is administered jointly by Harvard and the U. S. Air Force. Located at an altitude of 9,200 feet and nine miles by air from Alamogordo, it will be an extremely large solar station. The site has been occupied for five years, but the station is uncompleted...