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...music by a large band. Mingus made a number of important recordings with a large ensemble in the studio, but he only rarely appeared with a big band. When he did, he made an impression; his once-infamous Town Hall Concert of 1962 is now recognized as a landmark in jazz history...
Raymond Vernon, Johnson Professor of International Business Government, called the pact that resulted after five years of negotiations, "a very substantial agreement, almost a landmark...
...leaders who were also Muslims, like Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, rose to power; by the early '60s there was a belt of independent, predominantly Islamic states stretching from Morocco to Indonesia. For Muslims of the Middle East, one event in the past decade stands out as a modern landmark in the history of the faith. On the afternoon of Oct. 6, 1973, the cry of "Allahu Akbar!" (God is great) rose from the throats of Egyptian soldiers as they stormed across the Suez Canal and overran the lightly manned Israeli strongpoints of the Bar Lev Line. Later the first...
...Guggenheim Museum's landmark sculpture show...
...published his first book, a landmark study of birds; at 22, he climbed the Matterhorn and shocked society by joining a New York City political club dominated by working-class Irishmen. The ward heelers did not know what to make of this nattily dressed dude with a high-pitched twang and, as a reporter noted, a "wealth of mouth." For Teddy, it was just another challenge: he wanted to find out "whether I really was too weak to hold my own in the rough and tumble." Elected to the state assembly, he joined the good-government movement and started assailing...