Word: sites
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mortars, and a picture of Adlai Stevenson, the left liberal representative of a liberal government, telling the Security Council that the United States government had no involvement in the invasion; while at the same time CIA officials were directing the short-lived intervention. The Cubans have characteristically marked the site of "imperialism's first defeat in the Americas" with the construction of a school at Playa Giron where the bloodiest fighting took place in April, 1961. Historical sites in Cuba are not left as sterile monuments but are usually turned into schools; the Cubans think the best way to honor...
...Harvard Union for Radical Political Economics sponsored the rally-held while the Visiting Committe was meeting in the penthouse of Holyoke Center, adjacent to the site of the rally-to present an alternate idea of whom the University should serve...
...build the first two missile installations and go ahead with research and development work on the intricate combination of Sprint and Spartan missiles, electronic detection systems and radar guidance apparatus that make up the Safeguard package. What Laird asked for last week was extra money for a third ABM site at Whiteman Air Force Base, Mo., further investment in technical refinements, extra missiles at the two bases already approved, and acquisition of land for five more sites strung out across the U.S. Laird wants Congress to authorize $1.5 billion on top of the $759 million he got for Safeguard last...
Though South Viet Nam's National Assembly has occupied Saigon's neo-Romanesque Opera House for more than two years, the old building has not suffered from a dearth of drama. Most recently it has been the principal site of President Nguyen Van Thieu's bareknuckle campaign to silence his opposition in the Assembly. Last week the performance reached a climax...
...idea came from Architect Charles Luckman, head of Ogden's development subsidiary, after he was called in to design buildings for a portion of the site. Luckman, Ogden Chairman Ralph Ablon and I.C.I. Chairman William Johnson finally hammered out a partnership deal while flying from Chicago to Manhattan in an Ogden company plane. "We get all the money; they pay all the bills," joked Johnson last week, as he and Luckman divulged the plans. Not quite. Of the project's total cost, Ogden will receive 5% as architects and 2% as a development fee. Ogden will lease...