Word: sites
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Democratic Senator Hubert Humphrey, found out from the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey that its seismographs picked up tremors as far away as Alaska. Prodded by the subcommittee, the AEC corrected itself, announced that the explosion was detected at College, Alaska, 2,300 miles from the blast site...
...bloody rioting between Hindus, Moslems and Sikhs that racked India in the months before and after independence, Desai's skilled and vigorous handling of his police cut casualties immeasurably. In 1954 U.S. Ambassador George V. Allen publicly declared that Desai's Bombay had been selected as the site of a $30 million Standard Vacuum refinery because of its "remarkable stability...
Last week Corriere beat the Italian press with a Page One report by New York Correspondent Ugo Stille that NATO Commander General Lauris Norstad had chosen Italy as a site for medium-range missile bases. Through the eyes of its own 25 foreign correspondents, the mirror in Milan also reflected such stories as tension in North Africa and the Middle East, and, from Germany, Iranian Queen Soraya's reluctant progress toward a divorce (see FOREIGN NEWS). The paper bolsters its overseas coverage with 650 string correspondents and a platoon of 16 world-roving reporters known as "special envoys...
...Mirror. Within a few months, Mother Mary was off to Italy, soon became director of Italy's unborn Girls' Town. With her meager funds Mother Mary spent two years searching for the right site. She settled on a tiny hamlet called Borgata Ottavia, near Rome, built a dormitory-schoolhouse. Later she added a simple modern chapel, which was formally inaugurated last week...
Last week, after picking out the site for his tomb and announcing that he would probably die soon, Cinemogul Harry Cohn, 66, president of Columbia Pictures Corp., suffered a coronary thrombosis in Phoenix, Ariz., died in a wailing ambulance on the way to the hospital. A career that paralleled the great, glittering days of the cinema had outlasted the great days themselves...