Word: landmarks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Manhattan, the landmark that gave Times Square its name-the 59-year-old, 26 story Times Tower-has been sold to the Allied Chemical Corp., which will skin it of all its bony character and reskin it with a well-ribbed gridiron, making it look like a hundred other Manhattan towers...
...scholars insist on carrying the ideal of freedom this far. In 1953, Yale's President A. Whitney Griswold argued in a landmark statement that a professor must have both "integrity and independence" and the "affirmative obligation of being diligent and loyal in citizenship." Captive scholarship was just as far from his mind as from Machlup's, but he meant to make it clear that professors must defend the country in time of danger...
...Moore was ready to publish The Metabolic Response to Surgery, a slim (156-page) volume, listing Margaret R. Ball, his chief lab technician, as coauthor. Despite its unimpressive size and its coldly scientific title, the book became a surgical landmark. And it was only a beginning. What Moore calls his "big blue book" appeared in 1959. Metabolic Care of the Surgical Patient, a six-pound omnibus of 1,011 pages, would be monument enough for most men; it is a basic and irreplaceable text for modern surgeons. But Moore is still enlarging the dimensions of his monument. W. B. Saunders...
...American Landmark: Lexington-Concord (NBC, 8:30-9 p.m.). Fredric March narrates the story of the start of the American Revolution. Color...
Wednesday, February 20 CBS Reports (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).* Part I of a two-part series on the Supreme Court, including readings by Carl Sandburg, Mark Van Doren, Archibald Mac-Leish and Fredric March from landmark decisions...