Word: sites
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kennedy Library Corporation recently proposed construction of a five-acre memorial park on the Bennett St. MBTA Yard site originally intended for the entire Kennedy Library complex...
Frank Keefe, director of state planning, said yesterday the library corporation submitted a plan to the Dukakis administration to divide the 12-acre site into three parcels: 2.2 acres for Harvard's Kennedy Institute of Politics and School of Government; approximately four acres for commercial development; and the park...
Meanwhile, Chalmers Hamill was having a fit out in Colorado. He had taken a late flight with Dorothy back to her training site in Denver. When he got off the plane and picked up a New York Times, he almost had a heart attack. He suddenly saw nine years of hard work and personal sacrifice going down the drain because his daughter had spoken out and broken the sacred rule. It didn't matter that what she had said happened to be the truth...
...jewelry, furniture and other artifacts thought to be needed in the afterlife. The poor, who could scarcely get through their present life, took a skeptical view of such hoarding and helped themselves. The security of buried pharaohs became a macabre contest. As grave robbers prepared to descend on a site, loyal priests who had set guards on the mummies would rush the embalmed bodies to secret hiding places, one step ahead of the thieves...
Stoic Brevity. Dame Agatha recalled that unhappy time with stoic brevity: "My husband found a young woman." In 1930, on a trip to the Middle East, she found Max Mallowan, 14 year her junior, who was excavating on the site of ancient Ur. "An archaeologist is the best husband any woman can have," she noted before their 25th anniversary. "The older she gets, the more interested...