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...Manhattan home for office hours in Brooklyn. More than the medals he has received he treasures a thank-you book signed in 1933 by a million New York City schoolchildren. Yeshiva's new million-dollar department of pediatrics is to be named for Dr. Schick. His most enduring monument: the test which helps to save lives...
Mexico's President Miguel Aleutian likes to claim as one of the most notable achievements of his six years in office the successful rise of Pemex, the government oil monopoly. Recently, when his government raised a monument to Pemex in Mexico City's Paseo de la Reforma, the pedestal bore not only the famous 1938 expropriation decree of President Lazaro Cardenas, but quotations from a 1936 pro-expropriation speech by Aleman, then the youthful governor of Veracruz. Last week, in the final month of his presidential term, President Aleman flew to the Gulf Coast jungles to inspect Pemex...
Concerning your Oct. 13 cover, showing a bird perched atop the Washington Monument: Is it a U.S. eagle or a BIR vulture? It looks like you let "Form 1040" influence your ornithology...
Clearest indication of the dimout is the unpublicized decision to change plans for Evita's mausoleum. At the outset, the idea was to hold a world competition for the design of a colossal monument, then build it at one of Buenos Aires' main street intersections and preserve Evita's embalmed remains within, perpetually on view. By last week, the site had been changed from downtown Buenos Aires to the grounds of the presidential residence in the Palermo section. Evita's monument has been consolidated with an old project for commemorating the descamisados. Under the latest plan...
...last word will probably lie with Ireland's Academy of Letters and the U.S.'s Mr. Kelly, who is known to favor a monument in St. Stephen's Green, Dublin. But, snapped Lord Killanin, "statues have a habit of disappearing or being decapitated in Ireland...