Word: monumental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...managed well. One monument to her imagination is the 2,257-ft.-long Bear Mountain Bridge, across the Hudson River 35 miles above Manhattan. She saw the need of a bridge there, and her younger son, E. Roland Harriman, now a Manhattan financier (and still a Republican), built the bridge (now state-owned) as a private venture. By the time mother Harriman died, in 1932, she was able to leave her two sons and three daughters a multimillion-dollar heritage...
...Governors. Senators and Representatives of four Western states voted to drop the controversial Echo Park Dam from their plan to develop power resources on the upper Colorado River. Conservationists had opposed the plan, angrily pointing out that the Echo Park Dam would flood the Dinosaur National Monument in Colorado's northwest corner. The four-state group now plans to push four other dams in a bill to be introduced in Congress next session...
...Buttons, Wally Cox, George Jessel, Ed Wynn, Ray Bolger, Bing Crosby. Sullivan is the first to admit that any one of these entertainers makes his own talents seem dim indeed. On camera, Ed has been likened to a cigar-store Indian, the Cardiff Giant and a stone-faced monument just off the boat from Easter Island. He moves like a sleepwalker; his smile is that of a man sucking a lemon; his speech is frequently lost in a thicket of syntax: his eyes pop from their sockets or sink so deep in their bags that they seem to be peering...
Many of the alumni involved in the drive still think of Memorial Hall as a sacred monument to the University's Civil War dead. "This was the Westminster Abbey to us; we bared our heads when we entered, because some of our father's names were there on the wall," a member of the Class of '01 recalled yesterday...
...families of Navajas near Valencia dedicated a plaque reading: "To Fleming as a sign of gratitude." By week's end Barcelona, Spain's most bustling city (pop. 1,087,099) unveiled a marble bust, and the Gijón scene was repeated. Madrid soon will have its monument; Manzanares already has its Calle Fleming...