Word: siting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Officials of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) and the Penn-Central Railroad yesterday signed an agreement which will enable the MBTA to vacate its Bennett-Eliot car barns-the site of the library complex. The 12-acre site lies across Boylston St, from Eliot House...
...MBTA spokesman said yesterday that the car barns should be moved completely out of the library site within two years. The long-awaited construction of portions of the library complex may begin even sooner. depending on the exact plans for the complex, and on which portions of the yards the MBTA vacates first, said I. M. Pei, the New York architect who is designing the library...
...certainly very good news," Pei said of the agreement, which ends years of frustrating attempts to relocate the car barns. The attempts began even before the Commonwealth of Massachusetts gave the Bennett-Eliot site to the library trustees in January of 1966, with the condition that the MBTA find a new site for its car barns before any work begins on the library construction...
...final hours of their first EVA (extravehicular activity), the astronauts will collect rocks and try to obtain a 15-in. core of the lunar soil. One prize that geologists hope they will bring home: some of the debris showered on the landing site billions of years ago when a huge meteor gouged out the crater Copernicus, 230 miles to the north. That may well be possible. A three-mile-wide "ray" of material apparently ejected from Copernicus cuts directly through Apollo 12's base at the Ocean of Storms...
...almost 25 years, West Germany has served as the front line of the cold war between the two superpowers. For nearly as long, it has also been the site of a smaller, less-publicized struggle that nonetheless has been far more lethal for its participants. It is an underground war involving hired assassins, silent murder, terror attacks and mission-impossible type weapons, including a variety of poison gas that West German authorities cannot yet identify. The fighters are Yugoslavs-exiles opposed to the regime of Josip Broz Tito on one side, agents of the Yugoslav secret service, the U.D.B.A...