Word: sites
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Y.M.C.A. camping center in the Colorado Rockies, 7,500 ft. above sea level and 1,800 miles from the White House. To compound their isolation, the 1,400 delegates (420 of them adults) were soon blanketed by more than two feet of snow that fell on the site near Rocky Mountain National Park. While manfully debating the great issues that a preconference poll showed are most troubling youth, the delegates had to borrow Army parkas from nearby Fort Carson and improvise boots from chartreuse plastic grocery bags...
...this grew out of a top-level decision to split youth problems away from the regular once-a-decade White House Conference on Children and Youth, which took place in Washington last December (TIME, Dec. 28). But why Colorado? Stephen Hess, 38, the conference chairman, explained that the site freed everyone from distractions, to say nothing of saving $180,000 in big-city hotel bills. With considerable logic, critics sensed that the Administration was trying to avoid a confrontation on its own doorstep...
...Urban Affairs Inc., a St. Louis social-action group, funded by 17 religious denominations. Black Jack was still an unincorporated bedroom community when the center signed a purchase agreement for 11.9 acres of a former bean field two days before Christmas 1969. The land was to be the site of a low-income housing project, the sixth that the group had initiated, the first in the suburbs. Says Center Director Jack Quigley: "If we were not to be guilty of gilding the ghetto, we would have to get into the suburbs." Black Jack was chosen because...
...first document in the packet is a memorandum dated June 23, 1970 from the FBI's Philadelphia office to a Special Agent named Brinkley. The memo directed him to contact Selective Service Headquarters in Harrisburg, Pa. -the site of the upcoming trial of the Rev. Philip Berrigan and five other defendants indicted for allegedly conspiring to kidnap Henry A. Kissinger '50-to determine if UNDO had engaged in either of the following illegal practices...
...like conducting an antiwar rally at a construction site," quipped Jerome Kretchmer, head of the city's Environmental Protection Administration. On the first day of the show, Kretchmer spoke at a rally, launching a march on the Coliseum that was led by black-robed protesters wearing gas masks. Inside, his men set up a booth, complete with slides depicting auto pollution and pleas to car buffs: "The car is anti-city. It clogs our streets, fouls the air, assails our ears, devours our open space." The opening of the booth created a brief stir among the patrons and exhibitors...