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When New York City last week declared Trinity Church a municipal landmark, it honored something more than an esthetically pleasing place of worship. A grimy, spire-topped Gothic church overshadowed by Wall Street skyscrapers, it is an island of pastoral calm amidst the marketplace. Its outdoor benches are often crowded with secretaries and sightseers, and its cemetery is a favorite lovers' rendezvous. More than that, though, Trinity Church is a powerful, still-active force in U.S. ecclesiastical history. It is the largest parish in the Protestant Episcopal Church, with 3,900 congregants. It is also the wealthiest, with...
...verdict was a landmark decision for the whites in southern Africa. South Africa can continue to go its apartheid way in South West Africa. Rhodesia's Ian Smith can take new heart in his independence fight against Britain. And the Portuguese can rest easier about their white-minority rule in Mozambique and Angola...
Though no law bears his name, Javits' legal experience and debating skill have left their imprint on countless bills, including such landmark legislation as Medicare (he offered an amendment covering those without Social Security) and the 1965 Voting Rights Act (he and Bobby Kennedy got through an amendment that emancipated New York's Puerto Rican population by waiving literacy requirements in English for Spanish-speaking Americans who have attended U.S.-flag schools). Javits makes no obeisance to the titular authors of the laws he has helped to shape and enact. "I really pulled that one off," he says...
...same mechanical way. Certainly some unimaginative travel agent chose the in-and-around-London locations: Trafalgar Square, the Zoo, the Royal Enclosure at Ascot. A consultant on film fads surely recommended the modish scenes of violence, since the villains pursuing Sophia Loren and Gregory Peck from one landmark to the next seldom just take out a gun and shoot. Instead, Director Stanley Donen (Charade, Indiscreet) assigns a helicopter and a wrecking crane to tasks of mayhem, and later, in a quiet English field, three lumbering farm machines-all, of course, painted in primary hues-turn murderous...
Humphrey finally had the power to influence landmark legislation, notably in civil rights, for which he had been working throughout most of his career...