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...services to offer prayers for the council's success. In dioceses around the world, Catholics joined in special novenas, asking the blessing of God upon the deliberations of the fathers. Uncounted millions of Protestants, asked by their leaders to pray for the council, prayed that it become a landmark in the Ecumenical Century equal in significance to the World Council of Churches Assembly in New Delhi last year...
Generally Parisians approve of sending the city to the cleaners. But one landmark raises doubts: Notre-Dame Cathedral, waiting defiantly in all its historic and original grime. Says venerable Municipal Councilor Armand Massard: "It would be better to blacken Sacré-Coeur. that ugly cream cheese." Middle-of-the-rue opinion advocates a rinsing that will not render Notre-Dame stark white but merely wash behind the gargoyles' ears...
...windfall began to stir nine months ago, when Chairman Herbert Johnson of the famous wax company invited Manhattan Art Dealer Lee Nordness to lunch in Racine. The company had earlier shown its taste in the arts by building a spectacular Frank Lloyd Wright building that is now a Wisconsin landmark. Now Johnson wanted to find out what the firm could do for U.S. painting. Nordness replied: Buy major paintings from top living U.S. artists and exhibit them as widely as possible...
...construction had consisted of nothing more than the molding of this 5,750-ton sculpture, the terminal would be a landmark; but the elegant sweep of the design by the late Eero Saarinen is carried all the way through...
This was undoubtedly not the first in public or private, that this thought had been expressed; but from point historians would date America's foreign aid to Europe and America's policies on the Cold War. Historians would treat that moment a landmark in American foreign . And from that point, Harvard University would come to expect for at least hope for--a major policy pronouncement from its Commencement speakers. Upon inevitable, most would-be speakers would reminded of Marshall's history-making address and many would al- to it in their own speeches...