Word: sites
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...convert evangelism is the idea of Minnesota Lutheran Maurice Sand, 54, who first set up a self-sustaining mission in Medellin, Colombia. Returning to the U.S.. he started organizing an interdenominational mission of "Colaborers." He heard about jungled Parana State, visited it, decided it was a good site for a beginning. "I thought we could set up a little community of, say, ten American families with tractors and trucks to support the mission with coffee and crops." he said. Some 200 U.S. families heartily agreed, bought tracts at $30 an acre for uncleared land in Paraná. Last August...
...Hills. For the first time in the two-year conflict, Castro moved his GHQ out of the Oriente mountain fastness to a site near the town of Baire, 42 miles from Bayamo. Moving through the Oriente valleys, rebel columns filtered into half a dozen weakly garrisoned small towns, captured Caimanera (pop. 4,000), just across the bay from the U.S. Guantanamo naval base. In answer, the Cuban high command sent two frigates to shell Caimanera, planes to bomb the rebels wherever they showed themselves. Batista committed few troops. Whenever possible, the beleaguered garrisons pulled back; a few surrendered...
...understood that the University favored the motel land as the site of a proposed Cambridge-Harvard parking facility...
...hotel, nine schools, 28 churches, a library, a 109-bed hospital. Three-bedroom apartments rented for $35 a month, three-bedroom homes for $65. But gradually, townspeople sensed the tightness of their welfare-city cocoon. No family could own its home. Not general necessity but General Electric determined the site of stores and set their rents. Police, firemen, even the city librarian were G.E. employees. More and more, Richland residents began to move out to nearby Pasco and Kennewick to own their homes and chat over the fence with non-G.E. neighbors. But not everyone in Richland was inclined...
...patient swallows a balloon through which a frigid (23° F.) solution of alcohol and water is circulated. The chilling cuts down blood flow, and also the secretion of gastric juices to a negligible level so that they can no longer digest the stomach wall at the ulcer site. In ten patients it has taken an average of 25 cold-stomach hours to stop the bleeding...