Word: siting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...promises to be the most exciting and fascinating since John Kennedy edged Richard Nixon in 1960. In fact, in its patterns and subtleties, it may well be even more complicated than that epic contest. As the man who is trying to reunite the old Democratic coalition, Carter chose the site for his Labor Day speech with special care for its symbolism: Warm Springs, Ga., where Franklin D. Roosevelt often visited and where he died in 1945. In his address, Carter will argue that only someone who has not been in Washington for most of his adult life?as Ford has?...
...hunt for a better way. One of these is Surgeon-Immunologist Felix Rapaport of the New York University Medical Center, who became the Transplantation Society's new president-elect last week. Prior to implanting new kidneys in beagles, he has been removing some of their bone marrow-the site, along with the lymph nodes, of white-blood-cell production-and irradiating the dogs. The X rays destroy the ability of the remaining bone marrow and lymphoid tissue to produce white blood cells. Then he reinjects the marrow cells, thus restoring the animal's immune system, and quickly performs...
...security guards were escort ing five Korean workers while they trimmed foliage from a large poplar that partially blocked the view northward from an Allied guardhouse. At 10:45 a.m., according to the U.N. Command's subsequent account, a small group of North Koreans appeared at the site and demanded that the work be stopped. The Americans refused. A few minutes later, a truckload of some 30 additional North Korean troops arrived at the scene. An officer shouted "Chukyo!" -the order to kill. The North Koreans suddenly swarmed over the Americans and South Koreans, assaulting them with metal pikes...
Perine's first time-sharing resort was a luxury campsite near Palm Springs, Calif.: by now, 2,500 customers have paid $9 million for camping site shares, giving them 45 days annually for 99 years. A Perine-organized time-sharing program at the 1,400-acre Playboy Resort & Country Club in Lake Geneva, Wis., is also beginning to pay off: the financially troubled resort will begin its winter season with the highest occupancy rate in its eight-year history...
...devastating artillery barrage. The defenders were hardly able to resist. Said one of the last radio messages from inside the camp: "We are without water. We are close to the breaking point. Three thousand people are seriously wounded or dying of hunger. Every empty plot of ground is the site of a grave...