Word: landmarks
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...translated by three U.S.-trained experts: Moshe Greenberg and Jonas Greenfield of He brew University in Israel and Nahum Sarna of Brandeis University. They were assisted by Novelist-Rabbi Chaim Potok (The Chosen), who served as coordinator and literary consultant. The Holy Scriptures will certainly stand as a landmark of Jewish religious scholarship...
...landmark law, which was renewed in 1970 and 1975, wiped out literacy tests, banned any other barriers to the registration of black voters and required six Southern states to get approval from the Justice Department for any proposed voting law changes. Key provisions of the act, however, were scheduled to expire this August unless extended by Congress. The House voted to do so last October, but conservative Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee balked at accepting the House bill, which called for judging, on the basis of "effect" rather than "intent," whether local voting laws kept blacks and other minorities...
Those two fell years ago to the wrecking ball, and now it looks as if the Garden Court may go the same way. After granting the building historic landmark status last year, the Los Angeles city council will soon decide whether to allow a local developer to demolish the four-story structure and put up a 16-story office building on the site...
...inviolable worth and dignity of every soul on earth. At an open-air Mass, he told 300,000 cheerful but attentive listeners that, if unleashed, society's war machines today would make even the destruction of World War II pale in comparison. He spoke near the most renowned landmark in Coventry, England: the remnant of the bombed-out Anglican cathedral, left standing as a perpetual reminder of the horrors of war. The Pontiff painted a chilling picture of "people . . . under the shadow of a nuclear nightmare...
...landmark event in relations between the superpowers took place ten years ago this week: Richard Nixon's visit to the Soviet Union to sign the first Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty. Reducing strategic weapons promises to be more of a challenge than limiting them. "We want to talk, but the basis must be acceptable," warns Georgi Arbatov, a member of the Central Committee who is the top authority on American affairs. The Administration's arms-control planners feel much the same. Yet the very fact that the powerful antagonists of East and West are edging uncertainly to ward...