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...other hand, makes you glad that you live in 1964. Its wondrously way-out building is nothing more than a monstrous egg perched atop a modern steel structure. The ingenious People Wall lifts you hydraulically to the egg's underbelly, where huge bomb-bay doors open...
...some 500 bars, restaurants and servicemen's clubs throughout the U.S., the center of attention these days is a monstrous new machine called Scopitone. It is a cross between a jukebox and TV. For 250 a throw, Scopitone projects any one of 36 musical movies on a 26-in. screen, flooding the premises with delirious color and hi-fi scooby-ooby-doo for three whole minutes. It makes a sobering combination...
...merely imposing their own system on the past. "Individuals in history achieve authenticity through their actions," writes Smith, "and historians cannot arbitrarily deprive these lives of their meaning by judgments imposed long after the event. That we should ever have accepted any convention which held the contrary is monstrous...
...once again rewritten the Constitution, I demand that it apply the same principle on the federal level. It should give California 40 Senators to Nevada's 0 on the grounds that more than half the people in Nevada are Californians supporting the indigent natives with gambling losses-a monstrous form of taxation without representation...
...outside Kubitschek's beach-front apartment in Rio. "He'll return! He'll return!" they chanted. In Kubitschek's apartment, supporters hoisted the ex-President to their shoulders and carried him to the window. Fans and foes alike rallied to Kubitschek's side. "Abusive, monstrous and violent measure," said Heraclito Sobral Pinto, president of the Brazilian Bar Association and longtime critic of Kubitschek. "The real loser," said Archbishop Dom Helder Camara, "was not Kubitschek but Brazil...