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Gulf Oil's headquarters in Pittsburgh is a 44-story office tower that was once the tallest building between New York City and Chicago. Last week the 52-year-old landmark was pumping out a veritable gusher of rumors and speculation. The excited talk was caused by the arrival in Pittsburgh of Robert O. Anderson, chairman of Atlantic Richfield, and George M. Keller, who runs Standard Oil of California. The purpose of their separate visits: to determine, in meetings with Gulf Chairman James E. Lee, if deals could be arranged to buy Gulf, the U.S.'s fifth-largest...
...abilities as both a scientist and a propagandist were called on during his testimony defending evolution at the landmark 1981 trial of Arkansas' law requiring that creationism be taught in schools...
Much of the legal ammunition for contemporary racial-discrimination based death sentence appeals has been derived from the Supreme Court's own 1972 decision in Furman v. Georgia. In this landmark case, the Court, in effect, struck down nearly every death penalty statute in the United States and, in the process, spared the lives of nearly 600 inmates then on death...
...other Square businessmen are less sanguine about the development. "When they tear the old building down, a little of me will go down with it....[Gelotte's] has been a landmark for 45 years," says John Penney, who worked for Gelotte's for 14 years and is now manager of Ferranti Dege Camera Shop across the street...
...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...