Word: monumented
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...superhighways of the U.S. are a monument to motion (see color pages). Once, European tourists returned from a visit to the U.S. talking of Manhattan's skyscrapers. Today they talk of the U.S. road. A ride across the arching bridges, down the six-lane expressways, under the water and beneath cities, even through buildings, past automated toll booths, in and out of sweeping cloverleafs is an experience few Europeans can farget. On the intricate stacks of downtown Los Angeles, where motorists peel off like jet fighters, on the rolling expanses of the longest toll road-the 561-mile-long...
...prohibit fraternizing between the teams. He must make split-second decisions with confident finality, and he must be, or at least appear, totally immune to criticism. Says Veteran Charlie Berry, 58, of the American League: "You go into this business knowing that they'll never build a monument...
...Council of Europe, an organization dedicated to the cause of European unity, the exhibition includes works from nearly every European country this side of the Iron Curtain. The treasures were so many that Spain divided them between the Palace of Montjuich in Barcelona and its own proudest Romanesque monument, the great Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela...
...deals that eased temporary balance-of-payments problems for Brazil, Colombia, Britain, the Philippines, Chile and India. He took an immense interest in Latin American affairs, represented Ike at last September's Bogota conference, which programed the spending of $500 million in U.S. development grants. Dillon's monument was the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development-a Marshall Plan successor that now molds the foreign aid programs of the free world. Dillon helped draw up plans for the program, and last December, weeks before he moved into Treasury, proudly signed the OECD charter...
...grateful Mayenne placed a wreath at the bridge's center. Then the town built a marble monument, bearing an image of McRacken's face and the legend: "Ici pour sauver ce pout, James McRacken, 315 Bataillon, U.S.A., se sacrifia le cinq Août, 1944." President Truman sent a message for its dedication; General Charles de Gaulle knelt to place a floral Cross of Lorraine. Through the years, schoolchildren replaced the flowers as they withered. Each Aug. 5, the residents followed their mayor to the bridge to pay their somber respects to Jim McRacken. Each Christmas, they sent...