Word: sites
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Opposition to the University's proposed housing project at Shady Hill remained vehement and virtually unanimous last night among those living immediately around the tentative site...
Although Schlesinger, who lives at 109 Irving St., may be too far from the site to testify, he was supported by several families who are within the area...
...humid, fecund basin drained by a river system second only to the Amazon in volume. In the east lies Ruanda-Urundi, where the seven-foot Watussi live; in the south lies Katanga, the metalliferous wonderland that fronts on Rhodesia and is the site of Shinkolobwe, the world's richest uranium mine. Between is the timeless jungle (48% of the Congo is forested), with beetles the size of pigeons, dwarf antelope no bigger than terriers, bearded Pygmies with humplike buttocks who hunt the rare okapi (half antelope, half giraffe...
...overhead rotor blades. As Noll opened the throttle, the fuel in the pods began burning in small, roaring jet gusts, expelling the hot air, spinning the rotor and lifting the aircraft off the ground. At 4,000 ft., ready for forward flight, Noll switched on the small pusher propeller, sited between the twin tail booms, and kept the rotor windmilling to supply extra lift. Coming in to land, he first slowed, then cut off the pusher, gave the rotors full power over the landing site, and set the XV1 gently to ground on its skids...
...suit came as a surprise to almost everyone in the hotel business-and especially to Conrad Hilton. The day it was filed he was in Paris, on his way back from Berlin, where he had inspected the site for a proposed new hotel. When he first announced the Statler merger, said Hilton, he got a letter from the Justice Department asking for information, which he gave. Then came another "very polite" letter asking for more information, which was supplied. Finally, a third letter arrived saying that that was all the information they wanted. Said Hilton last week: "We never heard...