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Dominating the northern half of the city is a 200-ft. high copy of the Arcde Triomphe in Paris. It is slightly orientalized, and built out of American concrete. The original name for it was the Monument to Victory, however this title was dropped several years ago for the present one: Monument to the Dead...
Monday, the veterans-many of whom had been arrested at Lexington-marched from the Bunker Hill monument in Charlestown to City Square, across the Charlestown bridge, and along the Freedom Trail to Faneuil Hall, where they rested for twenty minutes before going to the Common...
...Philadelphia's police commissioner from 1967 until early this year, Frank Rizzo was a burly monument to law-and-order. He ran the force with an iron hand and the instincts of a street fighter from South Philadelphia where he was raised. During his career, when heads were banged, white or more often black, Rizzo frequently made it a point to be there to do the banging. "I am," he often boasted, a thick finger stabbing the air, "the toughest cop in America." Last week in an emotional Democratic primary, Rizzo, 50, rolled over liberal Congressman William J. Green...
Rich, original, rash and rational Stands the monument Ogdenational...
...companies, the corps paraded past another statue, Virginia Mourning Her Dead. Flowers were placed on the graves of the six young Confederates who are buried at the foot of the monument (the other four were buried elsewhere). A squad of hand-picked cadets fired a three-volley salute, and the bugler sounded taps. Then cadets and guests heard The Tribute, V.M.I. Spirit and of course Dixie...