Word: landmarks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jewel Box Like a Pimple. The preacher who will press the button happily takes time out to escort visitors around his still-unfinished "Landmark for Christ''-into the cylindrical, louvered educational building with its 50 schoolrooms (each with its own washroom), its movie and sound equipment, its $50,000 kitchen ("The women had their way here"), its 500-capacity dining room looking out over the parking lots (675 cars when completed) and outdoor theater (where Miss Oklahoma was picked last month). Pastor Alexander proudly shows off the deeply carpeted little theater-in-the-round, now used by dramatic...
Throughout the villages and cities of Southeast Asia, millions are preparing this week for a celebration that will be a landmark in their lives - the 2,500th anniversary of the death of the Buddha, founder of a religion followed by perhaps a fifth of the world's population...
...once the company hands him his blue wallet stuffed with prepaid coupons for every service he will need, down to the last cab, gondola ride, sales tax and tip. With each book of FIT coupons comes a neatly typed, individual itinerary that plots each move and ticks off every landmark, e.g., the Leaning Tower of Pisa is 13 feet off center because of the "unequal setting of the foundation." The FIT customer pays up to 25% for extra services over and above the retail cost of hotel rooms and travel tickets, though the ordinary tourists pays nothing extra for hotel...
Last week Wall Street was baking a pie much suited to Funston's taste; it was getting ready to float the first public stock issue of the Ford Motor Co. (TIME, Nov. 14). To Funston, this was a "landmark in the history of the ownership" of American business. To brokers, it was the biggest stock pie they had ever seen ($400 million). And everyone seemed to want to buy a bite. Orders flooded in by mail and phone; thousands of people who had never ventured inside a broker's office got ready to shell out their savings...
Died. Owen E. Brennan, 45, New Orleans restaurateur, owner of Brennan's Vieux Carre restaurant (a three-hour breakfast at $9.45), and the Latin Quarter landmark across the street, the Old Absinthe House (founded c. 1805); of a heart attack; in New Orleans...