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Within hours of the end of Spain's Civil War in 1939, Francisco Franco ordered the construction of a monument to the Nationalists who died fighting for him. With labor recruited from political prisoners anxious to reduce their sentences, work began in 1940 and continued for the next 18 years...
...open the crypt to the dead of both sides? Last year he issued a proclamation: "The long period of peace which has followed the victory has seen the development of a policy guided by the highest sense of unity and brotherhood among Spaniards. This must be, therefore, the monument to all the fallen...
Moderns in Tents. A few blocks away, in the shadow of the Pilgrim Monument marking the arrival of the Mayflower 36 days before it went on to Plymouth, seven green-hued, platoon-size tents, surrounded by the flags of 48 states and the District of Columbia (at least one work comes from each), make up the exhibition hall for the "Provincetown Arts Festival-American Art of Our Time." Inside the tents, on long, wooden frame rows crowded too close for proper viewing, 400 paintings are hung alphabetically, a few inches apart. Badly lit, they nevertheless attract some 500 viewers...
Discussing the University of Moscow, a "monument of faith and conviction of the Russian people in education," Hunt called the facilities there "among the finest I have ever seen--like a private club...
...rousing overture of the show, a quality that wreathes the Majestic Theater with a sunny-day-at-the-farm euphoria. In a fat Broadway season whose successes deal so clinically with such subjects as marital frustration, alcoholism, dope addiction, juvenile delinquency and abortion, The Music Man is a monument to golden unpretentiousness and wholesome fun-one of the happiest chemical explosions to hit the street since John Philip Sousa himself marched grandly into town, as the Music Man says, when...