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...Coming up the grand trunk highway from New Delhi, you could see as far away as 14 miles clouds of smoke hanging over Amritsar. Now & then the high golden cupola of the Sikh's Golden Temple would glint through the pall. After three days of rioting, Amritsar's streets were barricaded, piled with debris. Whole rows of shops were gutted. Amritsar's famous hide bazaar was still burning, and its textile row, where merchants from all India came for cloth, was in smoking ruins...
...frazzled way, Independence would be happy to see him. Harry Truman had caused his home town a great deal of trouble. Zealous merchants, who had put out $3,000 to decorate Independence in splendid' Christmas trappings, fidgeted last week when the revolving display on the courthouse cupola refused to revolve. Then the lights on the town Christmas trees would not work, and the choir boys, who were to sing carols over the public-address system, turned up some discouragingly deep bassos. But Independence's worst frustration came from the President's time schedule. After 24 hours, most...
...prospered. As his herds grew, so did his scale of living. He built himself a mansion which was the showplace of Wyoming: a 20-room structure of brownstone and pine lumber with a towering cupola, newfangled plumbing and acetylene lights. Impressed, the Indians took to calling him the Big Father, his house the Big Tepee. But the Big Tepee was only a beginning. To house his 200 employes the Big Father built a town, with hotel, saloon, store and school, incorporated it as Lost Cabin, Wyo. He made himself mayor, carried a deputy sheriff's badge...
Under the stately cupola of the Institut de France, some 20 Living Immortals buzzed away busily last week. In the most felicitous phrases of the world's most crystallized and elegant language, they were discussing the nuances of the word "art." They were the French Academy, founded by Cardinal Richelieu in 1635, the tangible concretion of the ineffable essence of French culture. Since 1935, unhurriedly, imperturbably, through World War II, the fall of France, the German occupation, and liberation, they had regularly donned their plumed bicornes and green-gold uniforms, regularly gathered to compile a new edition of their...
...Forum, Copenhagen's largest auditorium, where troops were quartered, helpful Danes trundled a large consignment of beer cases into the hall. Minutes later the glass cupola blew off and the walls were punctured in several places...