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...just like any ordinary crowd filing out of any ordinary theater--at Rindge Tech, at Memorial Hall, and at Lowell Lecture Hall. All three places had been rumored to be focal points for another in the series of diploma riots...
Beaming Dome. Focal point of all the bustle, and of the inauguration itself, is Capitol Hill. Chandeliers were being polished. The old Senate Office Building gleamed after a scrubdown. The $10 million whim of House Speaker Sam Rayburn -the two-year job of moving the Capitol's east front 32½ feet forward-was a gleaming reality (although the new inte rior space will be useless until another $3,000,000 is sunk in remodeling). The outdoor platform where Kennedy will take the oath of office was in readiness, facing a jungle gym of stands for the press (more...
Until the Communists gained control of mainland China, Peking provided the second focal point for scholarship. A center for graduate study and research was established at Yenching University, to which the Institute contributed funds for salaries, library facilities, and publications. Work continued from 1928 until the bombing of Pearl Harbor, at which time hundreds of the Yenching faculty and students fled to the western provinces. For a brief interlude at the end of the war, scholarly activity resumed. The Communist regime abolished the school in 1949, however, and the campus became the Liberal Arts college of the National Peking University...
...immediately founded Poblet as a memorial and an example to the fierce mountaineers of the region. Within the next half century, Poblet became a geographical and spiritual fortress of the combined houses of Barcelona and Aragon, and the resting place of their heroes. A century later, Poblet was a focal point of Catalonia's losing war with Castile. Philip II, Hapsburg heir to the entire peninsula, built El Escorial, near Madrid, partly to overshadow the relatively provincial pantheon at Poblet. The venerable monastery fell from being a seat of kings to the function of being a place of refuge...
...have two saviors." Obviously, Pinay was aware that De Gaulle's term as President has six more years to run. But by forcing a break, and by posing it as a question of preserving France's monetary and economic stability, Pinay was setting himself up as the focal point of future conservative opposition to De Gaulle. One of the four remaining Independents in the Cabinet, Secretary of State for Economic Affairs Max Fléchet, resigned later in the week...