Word: monumental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When a big-name citizens' committee announced plans to erect on Georgia's Pine Mountain a vast granite memorial to the nation's history (TIME, Aug. 17), the project was billed as a monument "comparable to the pyramids of Egypt in immensity and transcending other wonders-of-the-world in its intent." Cost: $25 million, to be raised by public subscription. Last week it became apparent that public tastes had changed a bit since the days of the Pharaohs. Because contributions had not yet reached the initial subscription goal, plans for the ambitious "Hall of Our History...
...quite all alone, it seemed: "I ask the people to be there to mark their remembrance of what was done to save the independence of France, which they intend to preserve. I ask the veterans of both wars and of Indo-China to surround the monument. The garrison of Paris will have to be there for honors and the sounding of trumpets, the glorious police of Paris to keep order. All of us ... will speak not a single word, will utter not a single cry. Above the calm of this immense silence will float the soul of France...
California's state legislature voted to accept from the estate of the late William Randolph Hearst his $25 million castle, whose ramparts overlook the Pacific at San Simeon, and make it a historical monument, its 3O3-acre grounds a public park...
...reached treacherous Scorpion's Pass, 60 miles south of Beersheba, and started up the grade like a clumsy beetle. As it neared a stone monument, erected to honor the Jews who fell in 1948 to win the Negeb, it was struck by a volley of gunfire. Ephraim Fuerstenberg, the driver, slumped dead; the bus rolled to a stop. Four passengers raced wildly through the door; a second burst spat from a hillock, and they fell lifeless onto the bleached clay. A bottle of cologne broke in the pocket of Hanna Kirshenbaum, 29, mother of three, and mingled the scent...
...after G.B.S.'s death in 1950, visitors came in swarms at two bob a head, and made the place selfsupporting. But as memories of Shaw faded, so did attendance. Last week the trustees announced that the Ayot cottage, not hallowed enough to pay its own way as a monument, will be rented, unfurnished, in September...