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...Storm King battle has produced a landmark in conservation law: In 1965 a federal court allowed a conservation organization to intervene on behalf of the public for the firsttime. The court also ordered the Federal Power Commission to reconsider the case, giving greater weight to environmental factors...

Author: By Mark W. Boerle, | Title: Con Ed Threatens Harvard Forest | 6/1/1970 | See Source »

...aluminum base, each mounted at a 60° angle to the wall, 1,000 Ibs. of paint in 347 different colors and a whopping cost of $100,000. Whatever its physical qualifications, Agam's gargantuan mural in the new cultural center of Leverkusen, West Germany, is a landmark in kinetic painting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: A Living Wall | 5/18/1970 | See Source »

...about later. To say that it is the finest musical of the '69-'70 season would be true, but a little bit like praising a candle flame in a blackout. To place Company in the perspective of exciting excellence that it occupies, one must call it a landmark musical, one of those few shows that enter the permanent lore of the theater by altering the vocabulary of dramatic possibilities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Fabulous | 5/11/1970 | See Source »

Representative H. James Shea (D,-Newton), who pioneered the landmark bill in the State Legislature challenging the constitutionality of the Vietnam War, took his own life early Saturday morning because of his reported overwork and despair with the continuing conflict in Indochina...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lawmaker Shea Commits Suicide | 5/11/1970 | See Source »

Eames (along with his wife and 30-member Office), is a contemporary Bauhaus. To the architect. Eames' self-designed Santa Monica home is as important a landmark as any Gropius house. The Eames Lounge Chair holds its position in design as well as Mies van der Rohes' Barcelona Chair. He has integrated the plastic arts with crafts and industry as the Bauhaus did, and what pedestal there was for art to stand on, Eames has replaced with the "everyman's" chair. The Bauhaus was a school; Eames is an educator...

Author: By Meredith A. Pahmer, | Title: Art Is A Chair, A Test Tube, A Loaf of Bread | 5/8/1970 | See Source »

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