Word: sites
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Settlers in Santa Fe were in a festive mood when they chose the city plaza as the site for a 33-ft. obelisk dedicated to "the heroes who have fallen in the various battles with savage Indians in the Territory of New Mexico." A plaque bearing that inscription went onto the monument's cornerstone in 1868, and there is no record that anyone found it objectionable...
Concrete Proposals. The choice of Algiers as the site of the conference meant that, by and large, this one would be dominated by the Arab nations, much as the 1970 meeting in Zambia was by Black Africa. Nonetheless, with so many illustrious and sometimes clashing luminaries under one roof, there were bound to be fireworks. One such incident occurred when Castro declared that Moscow was the nonaligned world's best friend in the fight against U.S. imperialism. Whereupon Prince Sihanouk took to the floor and, without bothering with a microphone, began vigorously dissenting. "We fully respect the Soviet Union...
...similar address inconsistency exists at 5 Hubbard Park Road. Harvard lists a property at 7 Hubbard Park; Moulton said only one property exists on the site and that the numbers are interchangeable...
...over. Richard Russo, the project manager at Bond Brother's Construction Company--the general contractor for excavation work and utilities preparation--said that the blasting and drilling would continue through mid-September. The company plans to be on the site until mid-October...
...amazingly healthy and even youthful-looking photographs released by the Chinese. Although China watchers for the past few weeks had suspected that the Congress was imminent, neither fanfare nor publicity marked its opening. Instead, 1,249 delegates from all corners of China secretly gathered at a still undisclosed site in the capital...