Word: sites
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...land sale, and she asked a young local lawyer to collect them for her. He did, and charged her only $5 for his services. The year was 1939, and the fledgling attorney was Richard Nixon. Not long ago, a group of La Habra citizens concluded that the site of that transaction ought to be preserved, so they collected some money, titled themselves Nixon Law Office Preservation, Inc., and applied to the California Historical Landmarks Advisory Committee to have the building designated a historic landmark...
...question, said the committee, because the site lacks "statewide significance and impact." After some research, the La Habra group found that other sites that have been approved include "a place where a bandit was hanged and the grave of a camel driver," and decided to appeal the decision...
That set the stage for the latest chapter in the case, which began last Wednesday night when an attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union, Norman Siegel, 29, flew from Washington, D.C., to Seattle, then drove 145 miles to Goose Prairie, Wash., site of Douglas' rustic summer retreat...
...departing campers, jalopies and motorcycles as the last of 600,000 pop fans set out along roads which for the first time in nearly a week were not clogged with traffic. The crunching of garbage compacters at work on tons of litter from the auto-race-track festival site. The echo of unanimous voices raised at the Schuyler County legislature in favor of a four-month moratorium on further large concerts in the area. And, of course, the rustle of money being counted; after expenses of $1.3 million, the Summer Jam stands to net a profit...
...lived several thousand years longer than generally believed, but that they may well have coexisted with-and perhaps were even hunted by-the early Americans who are believed to have crossed over from Asia at least 12,000 years ago via the land bridge that once existed at the site of the present Bering Strait...