Word: siting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...HUNGARIAN UPRISING. A crowd poured down Stalin Boulevard in Budapest and mounted the marble base of the statue, a 25-foot bronze of Joseph Stalin erected on the site of the razed Regnum Marianum Church. With ladders, cables and acetylene torches, a group of workers cut through the metal knees and brought the old dictator crashing to the street. Hungarians hammered at the huge metal corpse. Said one wrecker: "I want a souvenir of this old bastard...
Hang On to the Trees. Instead of hauling off the timber when clearing a site for a $4.7 million sports complex, Bates College in Lewiston, Me., decided to keep the trees. The 100,000 board feet of lumber will supply building needs for more than five years...
...scuba diving; later he embarked on a long trail of treasureless sea hunts, barely supporting his growing family as a peripatetic encyclopedia salesman and brickworker. But last November Webber's ship finally came in. Blessed by coincidence and new technology, the 36-year-old adventurer located the site of a 17th century Spanish galleon, the Concepción, some 80 miles north of the Dominican Republic. With his research partner, Jack Haskins, 44, the jubilant diver surfaced last week in New York City to face the press amid speculation that a salvage operation could yield up to $40 million...
...fifth of the find, a grateful King James II of England knighted his noble servant and made him Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. But by the time modern sea hunters began looking into the story, a crucial log from Phips' expedition, with compass bearings for the site, had vanished...
...Dominican corvette now guards the site as plaudits pile up from other sea hunters. Admits Jacques Cousteau: "I would have liked to discover it myself." Melvin Fisher, president of Key West's Treasure Salvors Inc., calls the Concepción "a fabulous find, a major discovery," but he cautions that Phips may have virtually exhausted the treasure after all. For now, Webber can afford to shrug off any doubts. His backers' investment of $500,000, he reports, "is already covered." And the salvage operation, confidently scheduled to last six months, has just begun...