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...Spirit of 76. Although the Old-Fashioned Fourth is dead, the nation today is more clearly than ever a vast and teeming monument to the Spirit of '76. The potent and bubbly brew of '76 was compounded of two unlike elements. Rebellion against tradition and authority, a spirit present in all men everywhere, was stepped up in America by the individualism of the frontier and the frontiersman's vision of a future that would escape and dwarf the past. This was part of the Spirit of '76, and it marched west with the mountain...
...fund to "raise living standards" for workers. Ulbricht's relentless concentration on heavy industry, at the expense of production of things East Germans desperately need, was slowed down to allow production of more consumer goods. Some of the vast state stocks of food and clothing, a monument to Ulbricht's heavy-handed insistence on "state planning," were released to consumer retail channels. Many socialized plants and farms were returned to private operation. In the Leipzig area alone last week, according to a Communist announcement, 70 shops, 40 factories, 15 wholesale houses and 46 collectivized farms were handed back...
...Smashed by an infuriated spectator was British Sculptor Reg Butler's prizewinning entry in the $32,000 competition for a monument honoring...
SHERATON Corp.'s President Ernest Henderson, who buys and sells hotels so fast that he is never quite sure how many he owns, bought control of two more: Washington's 300-room Carlton, a monument to old-fashioned elegance, and the 1,300-room Wardman Park, biggest in the capital. Price, including an interest in an apartment house and an office building...
Retired President Britton Budd of the Public Service Co. of Northern Illinois was invited to last week's party, too. He could remember helping Bishop Sheil found the organization that is his chief monument: the Catholic Youth Organization (C.Y.O.). As a young priest, Father Sheil served part-time as a chaplain at the Cook County jail. He walked many a doomed man to the execution chamber, and once a "mad-dog killer" said to him near the end: "Father, why do they wait until now before they start to care?" Later, when Father Sheil was consecrated a bishop...