Word: sites
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Episcopalian). At Truman's request, no hymns were sung and there was no eulogy. Bess and her daughter Margaret watched the ceremony from behind a green curtain that screened them from the 242 invited mourners, all relatives or close friends of the family. At the burial site in the library courtyard-a spot Truman had selected 15 years ago-a frail but composed Bess accepted the folded flag that had covered the coffin, after a trio of traditional military touches: three musket volleys, a final 21-gun salute from howitzers of Truman's beloved World War I Battery...
...party regulars met in a $700,000 tent city as princely as a Mogul encampment. Party Leader Indira Gandhi was housed in an elegant $107,000 "hut," which aides hastened to explain would serve as a guest house for a housing project to be built on the site. Nonetheless, New Delhi newsmen were stunned by its magnificence and reported that it had two gates: "One for Mrs. Gandhi and the other for the plebeians desiring...
More significant than the money spent on the site, however, was the site itself. The Congress Party evidently felt that stability had been re-established in Calcutta, a city where, between 1967 and 1971, the extreme leftist Naxalites had been responsible for an average of ten political murders a day. There were 6,000 policemen on hand to guard the camp. But they were kept far busier separating bottle-and brick-throwing supporters of various Congress Party factions than in foiling left-wing plots...
...hotel, directly adjacent to the site of the Kennedy Library comples, will be the "first structure completed in what will be a beautiful area." Kanavos said...
Problems still remain over parking. The 225 spaces provided by the Holiday Inn will be taken up by hotel guests, and no replacement parking is currently planned for the spaces which were previously on the building site...