Word: landmarks
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...historic French Quarter and parallel the Mississippi River. Preservationists claim the highway will not only destroy the area's flourishing tourist trade, but also defeat their hopes of clearing a view of the Mississippi, long obscured by riverside warehouses. Warns Harnett T. Kane, president of the Louisiana Landmark Society: "It is the greatest single danger now confronting historic New Orleans...
Amherst's judicial landmark was a famous conflict-of-laws case involving a chicken house that happened to straddle the Amherst-Milford town line. When some prowling animal frightened the chickens on the first floor, "they ran from the Milford end to the Amherst end of the house and proceeded to expire there in great numbers. The fracas caused by this activity frightened the chickens on the second floor of the chicken house, and they ran to the Milford end of the chicken house where they in turn undertook to die in equally vast numbers...
...feed themselves; their country, for all the lush wheat-and wine-growing valleys, is still mostly desert and mountain that do not produce enough food for the soaring population. Like Peru's Belaunde, Chile's new President Eduardo Frei offers a vast reform program, including a landmark partnership with three U.S. companies to double copper production by 1970. Frei has suffered from a hostile lame-duck Congress in which his Christian Democrats controlled only 33 of 192 seats. "Chile," he says, "cannot wait indefinitely." And this week he went into crucial congressional elections, hoping for a more cooperative...
...Frankfurter led in the landmark decision implementing school desegregation; it was he who united a divided court by offering the compromise order, "with all deliberate speed." But the court was slowly shifting toward a more activist majority. Black's incorporation theory has yet to prevail, but his libertarian ideas have. In a spate of recent decisions, the court has increasingly "federalized" state criminal-law procedures and raised them to Bill of Rights standards. In 1962, the court also tackled reapportionment, over Frankfurter's last despairing dissent that it was "a massive repudiation of the experience of our whole...
...Another landmark in Harvard hoop history will be passed tonight every time junior Keith Sedlacek scores a basket. Sedlacek established an all-time season scoring record of 458 points last Saturday, and should bloat that total against the Elis tonight. He will also become the first Crimson player ever to average more than 20 points in his a season...