Word: siting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jackson's most offensive remarks were yet to come. At a meeting requested by the administration at 2 o'clock Saturday morning, Jackson claimed he had "new information" that there were still many construction workers at the site--"Irish, Italian, and others of working-class descent" as he put it--for whom the dedication ceremony was the culmination of 18 months hard work. "Think of their reaction," Jackson said; "They will be there in numbers." And here he noted the probability of a riot between hardhats and protesters. He also tried to divide us along racial lines, glancing meaningfully...
...good business. Or so thought 22 entrepreneurs in Charleston, Ill., scene of the fourth Lincoln-Douglas debate. In 1969 the businessmen enthusiastically erected what they claim is the world's largest statue of Lincoln-62 ft. of fiber glass and steel that cost $40,000-on a site three miles out of town near land they hoped would become a national park...
...County. The judge agreed, but he chose Cullman County as "the nearest adjacent county without prejudice." Less than 1% of the total voting population is black in Cullman County. Because of hiring practices, the small city of Cullman has historically kept blacks out. This, then, would be the "unprejudiced" site of Tommy Lee Hines' trial...
...Community Assistance Program (CAP) eleven student volunteers from the landscape architecture and architecture departments will analyze the historical influences of French Canadian immigration on architecture in Lowell. They will use the results of their studies to develop a design for the center and then choose an appropriate site in Lowell's National Urban Park...
...August 19, 1963, former President John F. Kennedy '40 came to Cambridge to choose a site for a school of Government and Library which would be named after him. Citizen protest drove the library away from Cambridge to Columbia Point, but nearly 15 years after Kennedy's death, the school will be inaugurated this week-end. The ceremonies will symbolically launch what President Bok hopes will be a major professional school for public servants...