Word: landmarks
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Malta is a special landmark in Christian history,* and the Roman Catholic hierarchy has always played a weighty role in the island's affairs (present population: 330,000, of whom 98% are Catholic). But in recent times, as last week's elections again demonstrated, the church's influence has been challenged sharply by the Maltese Labor Party and its leader, Dom Mintoff, a Rhodes scholar who once studied for the priesthood...
...place burned to the ground. Sorin concluded that the Mother of God had "to show me that my vision was too narrow." In four months flat, Sorin and the faculty raised the huge main building that still stands, topped with the golden dome that is Notre Dame's landmark. The school pushed on with its work, for many years under the Rev. William Corby, whose campus statue has long tagged him as "Fair Catch" Corby...
Secretary Goldberg happily hailed the contract as "a landmark" in the settlement of labor issues raised by mechanization and automation, but it was at best a landmark of questionable value. The chiefs of the other railroad brotherhoods immediately vowed to seek similar concessions, and the precedent was sure to be noted with avid interest in other industries where automation is eliminating jobs...
...becoming ever clearer that the U.S. committed a tragic blunder last August in allowing the Reds to put up their wall through Berlin-and thus to win a test of strength with the West. The fact that the Wall has by now become the most familiar landmark in Berlin only makes the situation more poignant. Last week James Bell, TIME bureau chief in Germany, toured the 25-mile barrier. His report...
Werner W. Jaeger, University Professor, Emeritus, whose great work, Paideia: The Ideals of Greek Culture, was a landmark in classical studies, died at the age of 73 yesterday morning in Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, following injury suffered in a fall. Until his death, Jaeger continued to serve the University as director of the Institute of Classical Studies...