Word: sites
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...will mark both the end and the beginning of an impossibly protracted dream. The first serious proposal for a national theater was made in 1848 by a London publisher named Effingham Wilson. As long ago as 1938, Bernard Shaw had actually secured the deeds for a prospective national theater site...
...Almanac. But the book is a trove for trivia freaks who wake in the middle of the night with a craving to list "15 renowned redheads" (e.g., Thomas Jefferson, Lucille Ball) or the "nine breeds of dog that bite the most" (among them: German shepherd, chowchow, poodle) or the site of the annual watermelon seed-spitting contest (Paul's Valley, Okla.). Those addicted to the filler material at the bottom of newspaper columns will find an attic's worth of yellowing snippets ("If you had spent $1,000 a day every day since Christ was born, you would...
...Callahan's choice of Commonwealth Avenue instead of Soldier's Field Road as the site of his hockey education was borne out virtually every step of the way last night, as the Terriers overwhelmed Harvard in every phase of the game to win by an impressive 8-4 count and advance into tonight's finals...
Fred Harris wound up his Massachusetts primary campaign yesterday with an attack on "tea prices" and "food monopolies" at the site of the Boston Tea Party, a rally in Post Office Square, and a series of subway-stop appearances...
Watch System. Aside from unexploded ordnance (workmen have already found two rockets and a 500-lb. bomb at the American site), the twelveto 18-month duty tours are not likely to be exceptionally hazardous. Besides, says C. William Kontos, who heads the State Department section overseeing the mission, "on the one side you have the whole of the Israeli army, on the other the whole of the Egyptian army, plus 4,400 U.N. troops in between...