Word: siting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...acres of well-kept land 80 miles northeast of Seoul, Korea, stands the village of New Chorwon, where some 500 people make a living from crops of potatoes, wheat, cabbage and barley. It is not an unusual village-except in being a village at all. Four years ago, the site was war-ravaged wasteland and the villagers hopeless wanderers. What gave them life was the gift of a 68-year-old Philadelphia lawyer who does not believe in Christmas presents but does believe in President Eisenhower's idea that foreign aid can be on a person-to-person basis...
...Bulldozers pounded through a pine grove on the bank of the Skhodnia River about 30 miles northwest of Moscow, leveling the site for the first of several self-contained "Sputnik [satellite] towns" designed to move both industry and workers from the congested capital. Total population of each Sputnik: 65,000. After studying British and Scandinavian models, Soviet architects broke with the clumsy gingerbread architecture of the Stalin era, planned ten sections of four-story apartment houses to be assembled from prefab materials and set down amid flowers, shrubbery and ornamental ponds, as well as shopping centers, nurseries and kindergartens. Express...
...limiting the height of its buildings to 121 ft. (exceptions: monuments such as the Eiffel Tower, Sacre Coeur and Notre Dame), and its famed rows of low roofs are part of its serene charm. But last week, plans were under way for a 52-story skyscraper on the site of the old railroad station, Gare Montparnasse. As a gesture to the bohemians of Montparnasse, the promoters promised, in addition to a 1,000-room hotel, a shopping center and three floors of parking space, to erect 25 acres of artists' studios. The only question was what kind...
...years ago a small island in the Gulf of Mexico played host to an imposing expedition. Flashing official archaeological permits, a group of 40-odd men arrived to excavate the site of an ancient Maya civilization that flourished in the 7th century A.D. For 45 days the party unearthed thousands of finely wrought, delicately painted Maya ceremonial statues, carted them out to boats. Said one of the diggers on leaving: a find worth millions. Only later did reports come out that the island's caretaker had been duped: the permits were called forgeries and the "archaeologists" art smugglers...
...fourth century Emperor Constantine built the first basilica of St. Peter's on the site of his supposed tomb in an ancient cemetery, and in the present 16th century basilica, the tomb of Peter traditionally lies beneath the Altar of the Confession (reserved to the Pope himself). Over the past 20 years, careful digging has uncovered a number of Christian tombs beneath the altar, with the strong probability that one of them was Peter's; but there was no name or sign to mark it-only a maze of graffiti, scratchings of names, initials and symbols...