Word: sites
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...over the country, customarily cheerful ticos were wrapped in deepest gloom. "The Most Sacred Little Black One," said by tradition to have been given by the Virgin to a negro slave girl at the site of the basilica more than 300 years ago, is Costa Rica's most venerated relic. Costa Ricans took what hope they could from the old legend that the image had disappeared once before in colonial days, only to turn up again...
Hollywood's Nassour Studios, site of many an independent film production, fell a casualty last week in show business' battle of the century: the movies v. television. Los Angeles' TV station KTTV bought the studios for $2,250,000, planned to use them for producing TV film shorts for 25 stations as far away as Manhattan. For Hollywood it was only a minor setback. But it gave the nervous movie industry fresh cause to wonder, worry and scheme over the troubles still to fly from the Pandora's box in U.S. living rooms...
...Town-Site. How had Harry Truman made out? He had talked to 525,000 people in 15 states which would elect twelve Senators and 147 Congressmen this fall. Whether he had helped local Democrats much was debatable (except for Lucas in Illinois and Mike Mansfield in Montana, he had done little plugging of candidates). But there was no doubt that he had done himself a lot of good. He reduces the issues, said the New York Times correspondent admiringly, "to town-size so any dirt farmer can understand them." There were no Republicans aboard to complain "Yes, but how about...
...much better it would be, they reasoned, to reduce the patient's blood volume (and hence, blood pressure) at the beginning, so that there would be little or no loss from uncontrollable bleeding at the site of operation. They opened an artery in the wrist and let the heart pump the blood out through a rubber tube into a collecting flask (containing heparin, to prevent clotting). By an ingenious arrangement of valves and flasks, the doctors could draw more blood at will, leave the supply stationary, or pump it back. With the systolic blood pressure down to about...
Last week, with the assistance of the Royal Navy, which insisted that its only interest was in training divers and locating the exact site of the wreck, the Argylls were at it again in Tobermory Bay. The time had come, the eleventh Duke decided recently, to make "a really serious attempt" at the treasure. Even if loot eludes him, the Duke hopes to make expenses selling movie and feature story rights to the search. "The world is too drab," he says. "I think we could all do with a little romance...