Word: landmarks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This is Le Crazy Horse Saloon, a Paris landmark now celebrating its tenth anniversary as a strip joint. The place nightly draws 250 eager customers-better than half of them foreigners-who with mixed emotions gradually discover that they have come to a place that refuses to take seriously either sex, itself, or its customers. Everything about the place is parody except the prices: the first drink costs $7, the second...
...Landmark Article. As the law goes, privacy is virtually a brand-new right. Until 1890, no U.S. or British court had ever granted relief expressly for "the right to be let alone." Then came a landmark article in the Harvard Law Review by two young Boston lawyers, Samuel D. Warren and Louis D. Brandeis (the future Supreme Court justice). As they saw it, the modern press had become so snoopy that modern man was being subjected to "mental pain and distress far greater than could be inflicted by mere bodily injury." Their insistence on privacy as a new legal right...
...University's Arnold Arboretum, called "America's greatest garden," was named a National Historic Landmark by Interior Secretary Stewart Udall Monday...
...week the Goldmarks got a shock: Superior Court Judge Theodore Turner granted the defendants a new trial because "the case was submitted to the jury on a basis which the U.S. Supreme Court has declared is fundamentally wrong." Turner was referring to New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, a landmark decision holding that public officials can sue their critics only for a false statement "made with actual malice-that is, with knowledge that it was false or with reckless disregard for whether it was false...
Dozza thrives on paradox. When Bologna's Giacomo Cardinal Lercaro ordered the shaky old church of San Giorgio torn down, it was Dozza who insisted on repairs to preserve it as an historic landmark. In 1956, when a Christian Democratic candidate for mayor tried to undercut Dozza by promising sweeping social-welfare programs, the Red mayor branded his scheme financially irresponsible, and was re-elected by a landslide...