Word: site
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sometimes the new brood, like the old, wonders who is ahead in the walking. In December 1946 the Rockefeller brothers thought about donating the 3,000-acre family estate near Tarrytown, N.Y. for the site of the permanent headquarters of the U.N. Nelson got on the phone to J.D.R. Jr. The soft-voiced questions came crowding in. "Is this what the United Nations prefers? Is this the ideal location?" "No." "What is?" "New York City, of course." Then Nelson mentioned a possible $8,000,000 or $9,000,000 property beside Manhattan's East River. J.D.R. Jr. asked...
...fellow citizens at home and millions of his fellow humans abroad. With an instinctive feeling for the latent resources of the U.S. and the world, he has raised the levels of education, gathered art for all to see, inspired millions with the natural beauty of national park sites, reconstructed the sights and sounds of history in projects such as Colonial Williamsburg in Virginia and the magnificent Stoa in Athens, Greece. He has given a home site to the United Nations, trained most of China's doctors, directed the efforts of American mission aries abroad, built Manhattan's breathtaking...
...Sour Note. Last week the newly reconstructed Stoa of Attalus stood completed, its 92 marble pillars gleaming with unaccustomed whiteness beneath the clear blue Athenian sky. A bevy of American and Greek scholars, statesmen and other dignitaries, including King Paul and his pert, pretty Queen Frederika, gathered at the site to dedicate the rebuilt remembrance of the past. And in all the polite and grateful words spoken, there was only one sour note. Greek Professor Anastasios Orlandos, his nation's highest authority on ancient monuments, was unable to attend, but he sent a note of dissent...
TACAN does much the same thing by a different electronic method. The Air Force and Navy prefer it chiefly because its ground stations are much smaller and work better from a ship or a cluttered land site. The military have installed their TACAN stations independently of the CAA. Twenty of them are already functioning, and 181 more are being set up. Chief civilian objection to TACAN is that it is new, untried and will force non-military aircraft to install costly new equipment...
Immediate Treatment. For people whose injuries have made them unfit for duty but whose lives can be saved and who can be returned to duty by prompt treatment. Included will be victims of hemorrhage from an easily accessible site, quickly correctable respiratory defects, crushed limbs in which amputation is lifesaving, open fractures of major bones...