Word: sites
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...second Willard, built on the same site in 1901, was just as successful. Washington's society strolled through its "Peacock Alley"-the 85-ft. lobby corridor of green and bronze with cream-colored columns. When Alice Roosevelt, Teddy's saucy daughter, wanted to smoke in the dining room, the waiters obligingly shielded her table with screens...
...cattle, as well as rabbits, pigs, chickens, ducks and geese. They felled trees to block the snowmobile trails that cross the camp and erected a tall tepee near the old camp gate. They barred all non-Indian visitors, courteously but firmly escorting out occasional vacationers who strayed onto the site. Their numbers were, and are, a mystery. By some estimates, they are as few as 30; by others, 90 or more, including women and children...
...because Thant had been a political ally of Premier U Nu, who was overthrown in a 1962 coup by President Ne Win, the current regime was trying to inter him with a minimum of fanfare. But the city's volatile students, who apparently wanted a more imposing burial site for their distinguished countryman, abducted the body on the way to the mausoleum. Along with antigovernment Buddhist monks, they paraded it through Rangoon's crowded streets to the university, where a special mausoleum had been hastily constructed...
Cali Hollander, president of the citizen's group, said Central Maine Power has not applied for an official construction permit on the site, but has held correspondence with the AEC about construction on the island. Hollander added that these plans were not made public until after the rezoning of the island for industrial...
...judgement would have been better on its original site, would have served the needs of the community as well as the university better," Grayson L. Kirk, who as president of Columbia in 1968 called in the police, said yesterday, "but the circumstances made that impossible...