Word: landmarks
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...distressed him because that meant one less stage big enough to seat 96 musicians. So he, Violinist Isaac Stern and some others blew the whistle on the wreckers, and Stokowski founded the American Symphony as Carnegie's new tenant-whereupon the U.S. Government designated the hall a national landmark. Interior Secretary Stewart Udall, 44, went up to affix the plaque on the wall outside, but Stokowski took the Arizonian up to the podium, to show him where all the wide open space...
Then last spring, in successfully appealing another libel judgment to the U.S. Supreme Court,* the Times won a landmark decision (TIME, March 20, 1964). The Supreme Court ruled, in effect, that unless malice was proved, the conduct of public officials was fair game for criticism, even if the criticism was unwarranted or untrue...
Until January the students will be housed at Landmark, a luxurious Sarasota resort hotel, with a private balcony overlooking the water for every student. When Architect I. M. Pei completes the first phase of a $15 million building program, students will transfer to dorms that are equally inviting. Designed to complement the main building, which is the mansion that once belonged to Circusman Charles Ringling, the low-lying residences are grouped around a central plaza and interior courts. Pairs of students will share carpeted study-bedrooms (with bath) opening onto secluded patios...
...Rules. Last week, in a ruling that will cause profound changes in American criminal procedures, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed Danny's conviction. In last year's landmark Gideon v. Wainwright decision, the court held that every defendant in a state or federal criminal trial is entitled to counsel. In Danny's case, the court extended the Gideon principle and ruled that a person is entitled to consult with counsel as soon as an investigation makes him a prime suspect...
...Yale's John H. Ely, 25 (Chief Justice Warren), is a summa Princeton graduate with the further distinction of having collaborated on a landmark Supreme Court case (Gideon v. Waln-wright) before he got out of law school. Ely researched Plaintiff Clarence Gideon's appeal while working for the Washington law firm that handled the case. Second in his class at Yale (magna '63), he has since been working for the Warren Commission investigating the Kennedy assassination...