Word: monumental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hundredth anniversary of the birth of José Martí, the island's liberator. A ballet, headed by Cuba-born Alicia Alonso, performed nightly in an outdoor theater; 7,000 torch-bearing paraders marched at midnight; schoolchildren dropped a thousand white flowers at the base of the Marti monument. For a week, Cubans laid aside strong talk about their strong man, General Fulgencio Batista, and gave themselves over to honoring one of Latin America's greatest, though least known, historical figures...
Only Kliment Voroshilov, whom Stalin always calls Klim, regularly ribs back. Budu once heard him tell Stalin a story that was going the party rounds about a proposed monument to Pushkin: "Several sculptors submitted drawings . . . The one Stalin picked showed a massive statue of Stalin holding a book on which was carved in small letters: 'Pushkin's Poems.' " Stalin laughed first, loud & long...
...central Italian village of Collodi (pop. 1,400), where Carlo Lorenzini ("Collodi") wrote the story of Pinocchio in 1880, has been collecting pennies from schoolchildren the world over to build a monument to its famous little wooden-headed citizen. Each contributor has received a certificate entitling him to tell one harmless lie a week without damage to his nose. Last week such a license was on its way to Walt Disney, who filmed the story of the puppet in 1939 and who had sent a contribution...
...with time out for morning coffee and lunch), the long, black limousines nosed up to the State Department for diplomatic visits, the newspapers and press associations kept a corporal's guard on duty at the White House, and the tourists trekked from the Washington Monument to the Smithsonian and down the Mall to the Capitol. Yet beneath the routine, Washington was like Main Street-listening for the first drumbeats of the big parade...
...workmen had carefully uncovered 150 ft. of yellow stone facade, including the entire center section and part of the left wing. With 3,000,000 francs voted by the Seine provincial council, Poisson was at work numbering each stone before dismantling the facade and rebuilding it as a historic monument in the park at Sceaux. Still missing: Louis' table volante. Reported Curator Poisson sadly: "I even crept down into the sewers on all fours, but we found nothing...