Word: landmarking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Angeles Summer Olympics that appeared in its July 30 issue, TIME presented closeups of several individual athletes, many little known outside their home countries and specialties. Nineteen athletes appeared in a Neil Leifer photo essay that showed each of them against a background of a national landmark. In addition, nine American athletes, participating in events like archery that normally attract scant U.S. public attention, were introduced. How did these competitors fare in the Olympics...
Last week, after months of negotiations, the two sides reached a landmark settlement. The Community suspended its case, and IBM agreed to make available information about its computers to enable rival companies to design equipment that can be linked to the System/370. The firm will disclose technical standards for new System/370 models within four months after they are announced, and it will publish an expanded manual of the system's communication codes...
Included in the original assignment were three Communist countries, the Soviet Union, East Germany and Cuba, which have decided since May to sit out the Games. Leifer had the notion that Cuba's "landmark" was President Fidel Castro, who obligingly posed with the island's superheavyweight boxer, Teófilo Stevenson. Afterward, when Leifer asked Castro to autograph a picture from an earlier session, the President's arm was so sore from holding Stevenson's hand aloft in a victory salute that he could barely write. The arm was not too sore, however, to offer Leifer...
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Riesman, who did not arrive at Harvard until 1958, more than five years after the worst of the McCarthy period, has done landmark studies of education and the educational atmosphere at Harvard. He pointed out that McCarthy trained his guns on Harvard with a vengeance second only to those he reserved for "the establishment" stretching along the Potomac River. In 1953, McCarthy would bring his hearing committee proceedings to Boston to challenge Harvard professors, and later in the year he accused then-President Nathan M. Pusey '28 of producing a "Red-Mess" in Cambridge...