Word: landmarks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...arrived in Albany on a train called the Landmark Express. The reason that Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis made her much ballyhooed visit to the New York State capital last week was to lobby, along with dozens of others, for landmark-protection status for places of worship. Onassis, 54, has a particular interest in seeing that St. Bartholomew's Church in Manhattan does not permit construction of a 59-story office building on part of its landmark site. In Albany, Onassis met with legislators and Governor Mario Cuomo, 51. The high point of the trip was the plea that she made...
...following the smoke signals of destruction in the dry foothills around Usulután's dominant landmark, a 4,700-ft. dormant volcano. Wherever the fires burned, 1,300 troops of the elite U.S.-trained Atlacatl mobile battalion were rooting out base camps occupied by the Peoples' Revolutionary Army (E.R.P.), the largest and most aggressive of the five guerrilla groups that constitute the 10,000-strong F.M.L.N. As Yánez made the rounds of the battlefront, he delivered a message of encouragement. "Your being out here means that the campesinos now have a chance to work...
Judicial Command of a Landmark Case...
...American Telephone and Telegraph into eight smaller companies, which takes effect on New Year's Day, will be felt by every person in the U.S. who uses a phone, or expects to benefit from new communications technologies that the breakup should inspire. The man who supervised this landmark case is an unassuming, soft-spoken German refugee, virtually unknown outside a small circle of jurists. Yet Federal Judge Harold H. Greene, 60, in an extraordinary display of judicial activism, has, almost singlehanded, determined the shape of the nation's new telecommunications system...
...mall to compete with suburban malls-the same kind of desperate and characterless rearrangement happening all over the country-and still suburbanites clung to the perception of a ubiquitous downtown scene as one in which a man with a wallet is being chased by a man with a brick. Landmark buildings began to disappear, as did, the other day, an old newspaper...