Word: site
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pleased with the results of their far-ranging talks. The highlight of their meeting was an agreement on a formula for a summit conference with Russia's Premier Nikita Khrushchev sometime this summer. Late July or August was considered the most likely time, with Geneva as the probable site...
...pointed out that in October-six months after the Soviets had won the plaudits of the world's neutralists for piously suspending nuclear tests, and just after the U.S. announced its decision to suspend tests for one year-the Russians had carried out at their Arctic test site a series of nuclear explosions so "dirty" that they increased the concentration of radioactive strontium 90 in the stratosphere by about 50%. They were by far the dirtiest nuclear tests since the much blamed U.S. tests in the Pacific...
...bustling town of Poissy, 17 miles northwest of Paris, needed a high school and thought it had the perfect site. The town council expropriated 18 acres of farm land containing several orchards, a few small market-garden plots, and smack in the middle, a decrepit, uninhabited villa owned by the widow and son of a Paris insurance man named Pierre Savoye. Poissy's mayor proposed to indemnify the family and then tear the villa down. Last week M. le Maire wished he could forget the whole thing. The idea brought a hornet's nest of protests down...
...storm of protesting cables came from British, Brazilian and U.S. architects, and at week's end the deluge of cables and letters was having its effect. Malraux's ministry announced that the villa would almost certainly be spared. The Ministry of Education was urged to find another site. Le Corbusier himself? He appeared a trifle wearied by it all. Said Corbu: "Houses can die as well as men, but if there's a way of saving them, so much the better...
Where is the motherland of civilization? Prehistorians generally locate it in Mesopotamia, but Seton Lloyd, director of the British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara, thinks that the Anatolian Plateau farther north in Turkey may have been civilized first. One of his field parties has excavated a Bronze Age site near Burdur that looked at first like a small village of a dozen small houses. Deeper down, the diggers found mud and stone fortifications 10 to 15 ft. thick, and a wooden upper story that was apparently destroyed by fire about 4,500 B.C. Under the ruins were human skeletons...