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...information officer, Dennis decided that a less gory and more educational waxworks might well be popular with tourists in the nation's capital. He was so right: in addition to the new museum, Dennis' Historic Figures Inc. has set up five smaller wax museums at Gettysburg, Harpers Ferry, Niagara Falls, Denver, and Gatlinburg, Tenn. In July a sixth will open near Manhattan's Rockefeller Center, for which a replica of Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper is being constructed as part of a series of "great scenes from world history...
JANUARY--President Johnson ("seeking to gather from all America all that is great," according to Press Secretary George Reedy) prepares an inaugural exactly the same length as the Gettysburg address. Drawing on another American tradition, the telethon, he takes 6 hours and 37 minutes to deliver it. In the speech, Johnson stresses the War on Poverty and lashes out at "those centers of population in this beloved country where the disparity between the rich and the poor is only too evident, where evil is inevitably spawned to clog the bloodstream of our nation. These centers --suburban Phoenix, suburban Los Angeles...
...very pretty; or of Moses, who had a great impediment of speech; or of Jesus, whose Hebrew had a strong Galilean accent; or of Lincoln, whose wart, beard and shrill voice would have made Madison Avenue get rid of him immediately. It was what Mr. Lincoln said at Gettysburg that will be remembered, not how he "looked or sounded on television...
After all, U.S. public life is filled with allusions to God-"This nation under God" (Gettysburg Address), "Great God, our king" (America), "So help me, God" (congressional oath of office). The Supreme Court itself opens with the cry: "God save the United States and this honorable court." But the Supreme Court's subsequent bans on public school prayers in 1962 and 1963 led many Americans to think that the mere word "God" had suddenly become unconstitutional. And two agnostics were already suing New York's Commissioner Allen on the ground that the amended pledge imposed "compulsion...
Associate Professor, Psychology Gettysburg College Gettysburg...