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...leaders of the Soviet Union -Leonid Brezhnev, Nikolai Podgorny, Aleksei Kosygin-were downcast as they stood by the flower-covered bier in Moscow's imposing Trade Union House. While a string orchestra played funeral dirges, thousands of workers, soldiers and bureaucrats filed past the medal-bedecked dais for a last look at the jut-jawed countenance of Marshal Andrei Antonovich Grechko, Soviet Defense Minister and architect of the Kremlin's modern-day military might...
...grave. The anatomy is haywire, the drawing childish; but this emptily grinning totem of wooden bones, flagellating itself above a mysterious round stone, is as strange as any surrealist sculpture by Giacometti, filled with a sense of isolation - an image as suited to its desert as any cactus flower...
...Public School 161 in Manhattan, three-fourths of the students are Hispanic. So the community school board decided to rechristen the school, which bore the name of Fiorello H. LaGuardia. As a three-term mayor, the "Little Flower" championed city dwellers of every race and creed. But no matter; he was Italian, not Hispanic. The board thereupon chose the name of Pedro Albizu Campos, who before his death in 1965 proved his "unselfish devotion," in the board's words, "to the cause of liberation of Puerto Rico from the yoke of American colonialism...
Jefferson almost begrudged the time he had to spend in Washington to get the Republic going, defined the job of being President as "a splendid misery." He would have rather been at home studying the stars through his telescope, playing the violin and poking in the flower beds. Power and position were duties; they were way stops along the road to the real rewards of life-exploration of the intellectual, spiritual and physical dimensions of this existence...
...lived into their nineties, Burger, 68, is remarkably healthy despite his pace. His secretary reports that he averages 77 hours a week on the job, nearly a fourth of that in nonjudicial duties. He oversees the minutest details of high bench housekeeping, right down to final approval of every flower planted on court grounds. Academic observers continue to fault the quality of Burger's opinions, and though he carries his share of the writing, he once admitted to a Court aide, "I have to take some of the easier ones because I'm so busy...