Word: sites
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their search for a new telescope site, researchers crisscrossed the East examining and rejecting 29 different locations. They were looking for a valley surrounded by mountains which would serve as a shield against local radio noise. They also wanted a location far enough south so that the telescope's unsheltered antenna would not be exposed to wind, snow and ice. Green Bank filled the bill admirably. Radio noise in the valley was only a thousandth of the noise at the Naval Research Laboratory radio telescope in Washington. Moreover, Green Bank was distinguished by the fact that no commercial aircraft...
Syria (pop. 3,806,000). One state where the Russians are out ahead. Known as the "running sore of the Middle East," Syria is the most Communist-infiltrated state in the Middle East. Likeliest site of a Russian base in the area, already stocked, according to the British, with $56 million worth of Soviet arms. President Shukri el Kuwatly, just back from a big Moscow welcome, bows to pressure of young leftist army elements led by a Commie-lining security chief. Nasser's closest ally, Syria broke off diplomatic relations with Britain and France...
...blood-starved muscle was dependent on flow from a branch of the patient's left circumflex artery, Dr. Bailey opened the man's chest, snipped some ribs and put them aside, then slit open the heart sac. He was fortunate in being able to see the site of the 1953 shutdown where the left circumflex was embedded in the heart wall. Near the end of the artery he made a slit: instead of a spurt of blood, as there would have been in a healthy subject, he got a mere trickle. Through this slit Dr. Bailey inserted...
Queen's Boudoir. For five seasons Dr. Blegen's group has been working at a site near Pylos in southern Greece, where the ruins of a Mycenaean palace cover the top of a hill. Most famous inhabitant of Pylos was King Nestor of the Iliad, and it is probable that the palace once belonged to him and his Queen. Eurydice. The building, which had two floors, was burned to the ground after Nestor's death, but the blacked ruins can still tell much about the people who lived there...
Child's Toys. For six years, archaeologists of the University of Pennsylvania have been digging at the site of ancient Gordium, capital of the Phrygians, who ruled much of Asia Minor up to the yth century B.C. Dr. Rodney S. Young, leader of the dig, tells how an earthen mound near Gordium was probed with an oil-well pilot drill. Off to one side, presumably to foil grave robbers not equipped with modern scientific gadgets, was the tomb of a high-born Phrygian child who died about 2,600 years ago. The remains of five baby teeth were sifted...