Word: sites
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from the mountain air of Tennessee is Camperland, a 200-site concrete parking pad built by the Stardust Hotel in Las Vegas. Overnight fees are only $4-a lure that supplies the Stardust with patrons for its casino, restaurants and nightclubs. Since Jan. 1, some 70,000 camper-customers have been boosting the hotel's business. The parking lot itself contains a small swimming pool, bathhouse and laundry room, where women campers who have just been coiffed at the Stardust beauty salon compare notes on the evening's entertainment along the Strip...
...entertainment is more homey and the style more spacious in Butterfield Country, an 8,000-acre resort area 51 miles northeast of San Diego. Throughout the mesas of the Palomar Mountains are sprinkled Butterfield's 475 campsites. A $5 rental fee gets a standard site with water and electricity. For oak trees and a sewage hookup, the fee runs $2 more. The park attempts to re-create the spirit of the Butterfield stagecoach days with hay rides, an old-fashioned swimming hole, community cookouts and country-music shows. The focal point is an old Wild West village; on Sunday...
...March 22, Bok announced that the new dorm would be built on the site of Hunt Hall, that it would be no more than five stories tall and would house about 240 students and their proctors. Bok said that the dorm would be completed by September 1974, and that the Visual and Environmental Studies Department, which is now located in Hunt Hall, would move to Sever Hall...
...early May, the Faculty Council passed a confidential resolution asking Bok and the Corporation to consider relocating or substantially reducing the size of the new dorm. The Council was apparently afraid that the dorm would overcrowd the Yard and look out of place. The Council saw the Hunt Hall site as the last possible site for new construction in the Yard...
...this new building brings along with it one major problem: construction. The Pusey Library site is on a bed of rock that will have to be blasted out before construction can start, and Hunt Hall has to be completely demolished, so there will be a considerable noise problem in the Yard this summer and next Fall. And the hole in front of Lamont won't be filled in for at least a year...