Word: tracts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have increased enormously before the first flights begin. Their urgent concern now is to prepare launching facilities with which to make those flights. Technical direction of the program will eventually come from the Manned Spacecraft Center, 36 miles southeast of Houston. At present, NASA's 1,600-acre tract of rangeland (formerly part of the J. M. West ranch) looks like a playground for bulldozers. Little actual building has started, but eventually the area will have laboratories, office buildings, and massive test communications and control facilities...
...rays confirmed the diagnosis: little Denise has a connecting passage between her esophagus and her windpipe, and the upper section of the esophagus ended before it reached her stomach. Further examination showed that there was no opening at the lower end of the baby's digestive tract. The X rays also suggested an abscess blocking a perforated small bowel. The big question at Salt Lake City's Latter-Day Saints Hospital was: Would little (4 lb.) Denise live long enough for a hastily assembled team of doctors to attempt an operation...
...months after the operation-Denise weighed 6 lbs. and seemed to be thriving. She is not yet out of danger, but Surgeon Beveridge is confident enough to have set up a tentative schedule for further operations. By the time Denise is one, he hopes to open her digestive tract and close the colostomy; when she is two, he will rebuild the esophagus by transplanting a loop of her intestines. Beveridge now admits: "I really never thought Little Mouse would last...
Next month the best-known Hasidic community in Williamsburg, congregation Yetev Lev, headed by the famed, venerable (about 75) Satmar rabbi, Joel Teitelbaum, will begin building ranch-style and split-level houses on a 500-acre tract in Mount Olive Township. N.J. Besides the houses (average price: $15,000), the congregation plans to build a mikveh (ritual bath), a shopping center, a matzoth bakery, a rabbinical seminary and a synagogue. A number of Hasidic Jews who operate garment factories in lower Manhattan plan to move them to a tract adjacent to their new homes. Ultimately, the move to the suburbs...
...homes in a building tract go, the new ones in Woodland West, a 1,500-unit development in suburban Fort Worth, Texas, had all the features that sell...