Word: sites
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only his age (72) and prestige have enabled him to get away with it. The building in question is the corporate headquarters of the world's largest business, A T & T, to be built in midtown Manhattan. Given its cost of $110 million and the prominence of its site, the building could scarcely fail to provoke argument. But in addition Johnson and Burgee designed it as a summing-up of Post-Modernist building. This prospect fills some architects with skepticism. Says Charles Moore, "Philip's a genius and a gadfly, a delightful tourist. But people's expectations that he would...
...inability to control the chaos and hysteria at the scene of the carnage. The first 16 policemen who came for help all used the word "macho" and talked of themselves as possible failures for seeking therapy. Most urged that the psychologist look at video tapes and photographs of the site, partly to share their sickening feeling, partly to convince the therapist of their manliness. Says Davidson: "They didn't want it to appear that they'd been overcome by some small thing...
...future, and American astronauts have again landed on the moon. Emerging from their spacecraft, they perform such familiar chores as setting up a TV camera, placing various scientific instruments around their landing site, and collecting rocks and samples of the dusty lunar soil. Then they return to the ship to prepare for more far-ranging exploration. When the spacecraft's big hatch reopens, the astronauts scoot out, pedaling away as if they were on bicycles...
Iranian government officials in 1974 to draw up site plans for the university. That contract was renewed in 1975 and again in the fall...
...years, conspiracy theorists have claimed that a second gunman was located on the knoll. Their view was supported by some witnesses who said they saw a puff of smoke rise from that site during the shooting. In addition, a photograph made at the time showed a policeman running toward the knoll rather than toward the wounded President. Some critics of the Warren Commission even contend that photos may show the shadowy image of a man partially concealed behind a tree on the knoll...