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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...attendance down. It fell from 5 million a year in 1967 to less than 2 million a decade later. By 1978 Rockefeller Center, the Music Hall's owner, planned to close it for good. That prompted a nationwide outcry that led New York City to designate the interior a landmark that had to be preserved. After a $2.5 million renovation that restored the original appearance of everything from the 24-karat gold-leaf ceiling to the murals in the bathrooms, the Music Hall reopened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Mighty High-Kicking Comeback | 2/24/1986 | See Source »

...Most landmark laws are signed in the Oval Office amid great hoopla, by a beaming President surrounded by self-promoting politicians grinning in the glare of television lights. But when Ronald Reagan penned his name on the Gramm-Rudman Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Reduction Control Act of 1985 last week, he did so without ceremony or cameras...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Look, Ma! No Hands! | 12/23/1985 | See Source »

Last week, Spaulding and Slye filed suit against the nine City Councilors for unanimously declaring the 80-ft. tree a historic landmark on October...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: S&S Suing City | 12/17/1985 | See Source »

Spaulding and Slye--a company that has been constructing a fourstory office complex next to the site of the tree at 1000 Mass Ave.--charged that the city exceeded its authority in trying to "to designate something other than a man-made structure or object as a landmark...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: S&S Suing City | 12/17/1985 | See Source »

...requiring the licensing of journa lists violated the right to free expression. Stephen Schmidt, an American reporter, had been found guilty in 1983 of practicing journalism in Costa Rica without a required license and had received a three-month suspended sentence from that nation's Supreme Court. In its landmark ruling, the human rights court, which sits in San Jose, Costa Rica, held that "the compulsory licensing of journalists is incompatible with Article 13 of the American Convention on Human Rights insofar as it denies some persons access to the full use of the news media as a means...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Strong Message to Censors | 12/16/1985 | See Source »

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