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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...International Olympic Committee scheduled a London meeting this week to talk 1948 games. Likely site: London's Wembley Stadium...
...miles east of St. Gregoire d'Iberville, Quebec, 30,000 persons gathered last week to watch Premier Maurice Duplessis unveil a 31-ft. granite cross. It was erected on the site of a log cabin where Alfred Bessette was born in 1846. Before Alfred Bessette died in 1937, he won a worldwide reputation for holiness and miracle-making...
...very first chain reaction-marked the beginning of the Atomic Age. The pile was successful. Long before the queasy process had been reduced to an orderly procedure, a gigantic, full-sized plutonium plant had been started at Hanford on the desert near Yakima, Wash. Advantages of the unattractive site: isolation, a good supply of Grand Coulee power and the Columbia River which would carry away the enormous heat generated in the piles...
Stains on Rocks. Gilbert La Bine, a sturdy, blue-eyed, weather-toughened French Canadian, found the site of Radium City 15 years ago, while looking principally for gold. He had grown up in the mining town of Haileybury, Ont., at 15 had gone prospecting...
...Munich last week burly Michael Cardinal von Faulhaber, 76, longtime anti-Nazi who ones narrowly escaped being sent to Dachau, asked General Eisenhower for permission to build a convent on the site of that most dreaded of Nazi concentration camps. His vision: to make the scene of 20th-century mass martyrdom a place of pilgrimage for people of all faiths...