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Thank goodness the eagle won out over Benjamin Franklin's suggestion that the turkey become the country's emblem [July 5]. I cannot imagine having a patriotic national march titled Under the Double Turkey...
...trouble with balky tiles, erratic engines and, on this last mission, the exasperating and puzzling $32 million loss of two jettisoned solid-propellant boosters that sank into the Atlantic Ocean, the shuttle remains a unique vehicle, an emblem of national technological excellence unlike anything in the Soviet space arsenal. That would include their Salyut 7 space station, which was pointedly visited by three cosmonauts, one of them a Frenchman, while Columbia circled the earth several hundred miles below it. As Reagan noted, the space shuttle shows the world that "Americans still have the know-how and Americans still have...
PATRICK says the fact that Kermit the Frog addressed this year's graduating class at Harvard is an obvious emblem of the times...
...cluster of 13 arrows (for the original states) in its left. Americans were not the first to adopt eagles as symbols of independence, courage and power: European cave men decorated their walls with drawings of eagles, and rulers from the Roman Caesars to Napoleon chose the bird as their emblem. But no people took to eagles like the Americans to Old Baldie, which has adorned everything from 19th century $20 gold pieces and 20th century quarters to brass door knockers and even mass-produced "colonial-style" paper-towel dispensers. American craftsmen have featured the proud bird on such homely items...
...Landsdowne Shop, inside Fenway Park by the rightfield entrance, regularly sells these shorts (size 32-40) for $4.95 We could in fact, fill a fan's entire closet with goods from this souvenir store, including t-shirts, sweat shirts, jackets, v-neck sweaters and neckties, all bearing the Bosox emblem...