Word: symbolization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first anniversary of the Great Wall passes, it still stands as a monument to freedom and heroism instead of the symbol of slavery the East German Communists meant...
...nature of his ecclesiastical position and the history of his tiny country (4,015 sq. mi., 1,600,000 pop.) necessarily make Patriarch Meouchi a political figure. A proud mountain people who preserved their Christian faith through centuries of Arab persecution, the Maronites regard the patriarchy as a symbol of their national ambitions...
...seemed to many historians to be a relic of medieval times. Yet many Catholic scholars defend his courage, if not his wisdom, and regard him as the founder of the modern papacy. Pope John XXIII regards Pius IX as "an admirable shepherd," whose beatification will be an appropriate symbol of the aims of the Council...
...often precariously higher, Schwartz has brought off some imaginative deals. Two years ago, Jonathan Logan merged with Montana's moribund Butte Copper & Zinc Co., took over its assets, earned $2,700,000 after taxes. Through Butte, Jonathan Logan got a listing on the New York Exchange (current trading symbol: JOL), became the first ladies' ready-to-wear maker to make the Big Board. The highly competitive garment business had been suspicious of "going public" because that requires a company to publish intimate financial details. But after Schwartz showed that public listing also opens better lines of credit, there...
...privately financed Space Needle, symbol of the fair, is close to paying off its $4,000.000 cost on the strength of elevator rides to the top ($1) and rent receipts from the revolving restaurant there, where crowds sometimes line up for four hours at lunch and reservations are made for breakfast. The $4,000,000, mile-long monorail to the fairgrounds will soon be paid for, and may be turned over to the city. As for the rest of the fair. private creditors have already recouped their original $4,500,000 investment, and since the fair still has another...