Word: landmarks
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DIED. Kurt Debus, 74, German scientist who was director from 1952 to 1974 of NASA'S Cape Canaveral facility (now the Kennedy Space Center), overseeing such landmark projects as the launches of the first U.S. manned spaceflight and Apollo 11 's moon mission; of a heart attack; in Cocoa, Fla. Debus worked closely with Wernher von Braun, the father of modern rocketry, to design the Nazis' V-2 rocket booster, then became a passionately loyal American cit izen after the German surrender. In the 1950s he worked on the Army's first missile capable of carrying and delivering a nuclear...
Like the recent developments of Boston's Faneuil Hall Market-place and Baltimore's Harborplace, the Old Post Office is a zesty example of preserving an urban landmark in a fashion that not only revitalizes an area but pays its own way. Although it opened just last month, the center is already attracting crowds of office workers at noon, tourists throughout the day and curious suburbanites after dark. The project heralds even more. Once, regulations made it difficult for profitmaking vendors to sell so much as a candy bar on Government property. But in 1976 the Public Buildings...
SALLY RIDE probably put it best when she got around to commenting on the media adoration which, several weeks after her landmark space flight, was still going strong. "It's too bad," she noted, "that this has to be such a big deal...
...neon Coca-Cola sign, a long-standing commercial landmark overlooking the Charles River, will probably be torn down and relocated early next year and replaced by a 15-story hotel...
...despite the engineering costs and the intricate logistical problems, Casey said of the quarter-century-old landmark. "We believe it is a part of a history of an era and an area and will make our best efforts to finding a solution to the issue...