Word: landmarking
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...demonstrate that society takes its laws seriously; retribution seems a natural human urge. As the homicide rate doubled during the 1960s and early '70s, however, federal courts were becoming ever more scrupulous in their review of capital sentences. Then, in 1972, came the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark ruling: in Furman vs. Georgia, the court decided that state laws permitted judges and juries so much leeway in prescribing death that the sentence as applied was arbitrary, and thus unconstitutional. Capital punishment, wrote Justice Potter Stewart, was "freakishly imposed" on a "capriciously selected random handful" of murderers. However...
Barney Clark's heart was the least of his worries last week, and that was a welcome change. The air-powered artificial heart permanently implanted in place of his own failing organ continued to work perfectly, just as it had from the time of the landmark operation in Salt Lake City on Dec. 1. The plastic pump clicked steadily at an unvarying 90 beats a minute as Clark made remarkable initial progress. And it pulsed without pause as Clark suffered, and survived, the first major setback in his recovery. The heart's unflagging performance led Dr. Chase Peterson...
...white and blue neon pulsating gaudily above the rooftops, the sign advertising Citgo, the Cities Service Company's trademark, somehow seemed right for Boston; for all its tackiness, the great ad in the sky fitted in. But now a threat looms over the garish and beloved landmark: Cities Service wants to tear it down...
...Bostonians fighting to give a defunct electric advertisement the same landmark protection as hallowed Boston Common? Arthur Krim, a consultant to the Massachusetts Historical Society, puts the issue simply:"This sign is also part of the heritage that makes Boston a very interesting place...
...began as a series of informal jam sessions in a French Quarter art gallery. The pickup sessions soon gave way to regular nightly concerts, and, under the management of Sandra and Allan Jaffe, a transplanted Pennsylvania couple, the hall eventually became a sort of New Orleans cultural landmark. It offered the musicians regular work, a wider audience and finally international recognition as purveyors of one of America's greatest art forms. Once the hall became established, the few active professionals were joined by dozens of other players who, unable to make a living, had hung up their instruments long...