Word: sites
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this week will come six representatives of the United Nations Organization to select the site of UNO's permanent home...
...This site, the Hyde Park home of the man who had done much to make UNO possible, seamed the probable first choice. In London last week the UNO Interim Committee had narrowed down the possible sites to about 15, all within a radius of 85 miles of New York City or within 60 miles of Boston. Among them were Princeton, N.J., and such historic Massachusetts towns as Concord, Marblehead, Quincy, Dedham. Whatever the site, Congress will have to agree to surrender sovereignty over...
...Hyde Park site would seem to fill the bill. It is within easy reach, over fine highways, of the nation's metropolis. In its 1,200 scenic acres there is room to spare for the necessary buildings...
...tragedy of Oradour-sur-Glane. He molded a statue of a woman knee-deep in fire; her throat seemed to swell with a scream; her arms were lifted. Fenosa's Oradour will shortly be placed in a square in Limoges-the town near Oradour's seared site...
...delegation, which abstained from voting (but not from lobbying and talking) on the issue, promised to abstain in a realer sense when the commission decides between U.S. sites. The British want Boston (Irish population 40%), which gives it a lead over Philadelphia, Flushing Meadows, Newport, St. Louis and San Francisco. The UNO will insist that it be given an enclave for the site; this would mean that part of the selected city would no longer be part...