Word: sites
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mark") sent Lieut. Colonel Hayhanen first to Salida, Colo., later to Quincy, Mass, to check construction of the Navy's first atomic-powered cruiser, Long Beach. In the spring of 1955 both Abel and Hayhanen roamed the countryside around Poughkeepsie, N.Y. looking for a suitable short-wave radio site...
Crossroads Jumble. The ancient city has seen the glory and decline of two empires. Founded by the Greeks six centuries before Christ, and chosen as the site of a new Rome by the Emperor Constantine in A.D. 330, the city was known first as Byzantium. As Constantinople, it was a world capital for 1,100 years until it fell in 1453 to the founders of a new empire, the vigorous Turks of the Ottoman Conqueror Mohammed...
BRIGHT RED SKYSCRAPER will be built in midtown Manhattan on site of Carnegie Hall. Real-Estate Man Louis J. Glickman, who bought Carnegie Hall for $5,000,000, will raze famed music center, start construction in 1959 of $22 million 44-story office tower to be faced with red-porcelain-covered steel panels...
...slow-growing, organic whole, surrounded with buildings of brick weathered sienna brown and warm pastel shades. The square is large enough to hold the town's whole population in its sloping, shell-shaped form, unified with simple, geometric lines radiating out from the Palazzo Pubblico. It is the site of mid-20th century celebrations that match in gusto those which so delighted the Renaissance storyteller Boccaccio...
...Place de la Concorde, was one of Britain's supreme building triumphs. It resulted from the combined efforts of an unknown road builder, architect and artist named John Wood and his son John Wood Jr., who had taken over the cramped, run-down town of Bath, site of an ancient Roman spa, and rebuilt it into a showpiece of Georgian architecture and a prime example of unified English town planning. The younger Wood's supreme gambit was to take one elliptical segment of the oval form that Bernini used for St. Peter's Square, and throw...