Word: dome
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Since 1918, the highest-flying flag atop the capitol dome on Montgomery's Goat Hill has been the Alabama state flag. Since 1961, the Confederate battle flag has usually flown below it. The Stars and Stripes? On a separate flagpole, lower than the other two. Blacks have long protested this positioning as a symbol of resistance to integration...
...only appropriate, then, that Old Glory last week was finally elevated to its rightful position by another symbol of Dixie's resistance. With no fanfare, Governor George Wallace ordered the Stars and Stripes placed atop the capitol dome flagpole, with the Alabama banner beneath it and the Confederate standard in the lowest position. The action, said State Archivist Milo Howard, was "a gesture of friendliness to 25% to 30% of our population...
Dylan's Pleasure Dome...
...battle for the fourth Middlesex seat is a classic old incumbent versus young challenger battle, and as usual, the incumbent must be given a slight edge. But Graham, riding her city council visibility and solid support in key areas of the district, is well within reach of the golden dome...
...four hijackers have been captured and are standing near the ramp in handcuffs, shouting the familiar slogans of the Cretin Liberation Movement. The hostages-just released after five harrowing days aboard the airliner-are distressed, but not because of their ordeal. "They were very courteous, very humanitarian, " says Marta Dome of her captors. "Once they let me go to the bathroom. "Declares Bertha Nation, who was slapped around: "Any fair-minded American would have to admit that the Cretin people have been driven to this." Egret Birdsnoot has no hard feelings about his injury: "It was just...