Word: landmarking
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Paris has swallowed up the Cathedral of Notre Dame and St. Paul's is only one landmark of London, but the life of Vienna still centers around the 800-year-old Cathedral of St. Stephen. The Viennese call it, familiarly, Stefanskirche-Stephen's Church. Since the war, when its roof was wrecked in the siege of Vienna, they have worked as hard to repair Stefanskirche as their 12th century forefathers did to build it. In six years workmen, including free labor volunteers, contributed 1,500,000 hours to its repair. New tiles to cover the slate roof were...
...Landmark. Fletcher's crusade began over a year ago when the radar operator of a B-29 flying the dogleg "Ptarmigan" track (Alaska to the Pole) reported that he had picked up a strange target-an "island" of some sort where there should have been nothing but spongy, saltwater ice pack (TIME, Nov. 27,1950). Because the 16-hour weather hops over the white wastes of the Arctic get monotonous, the crews took a lively interest in searching for a new landmark...
Cambridge late-daters are lamenting absence of the aged landmark, the Harvard Trust Clock. Since its destruction by a truck on the night of February 5, the clock has been the subject of many undergraduate complaints to the Harvard Trust...
...pattern for a new European Army which will include the forces of Western Germany (see INTERNATIONAL). Before the European Army becomes a fact, there are still some difficult parliamentary hurdles to be crossed and ancient rivalries to be soothed. Nonetheless, the Lisbon agreement rose last week as a historic landmark in the defense of free men-and an impressive accomplishment of U.S. diplomacy...
...teetotaling Muley Doughton-"what little brains I got, I have to keep sober so I can do my work"-Washington was losing a sturdy landmark. At 88, he is getting deaf (though some say he can hear just fine when he wants to). In the last year or so, he has taken to sleeping in, gets to his office around 8 a.m., three hours later than in the old days. But his 6 ft. 2 in. frame is still as straight as an Indian's and almost as tough as it was in his boyhood on the farm, when...