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...different positions, who died in a Japanese pow camp after smuggling his unit's flag past his captors; Ed White, who walked in space and died in Apollo 1; Joe Stilwell of China; Lucius Clay of the Berlin airlift; George Goethals of the Panama Canal. The biggest monument, however, a large pyramid, belongs to a general named Egbert Viele. An eminent engineer, he helped design the cemetery, which perhaps explains his prominence. The entrance to the pyramid is guarded by a pair of sphinxes. These are not the original sphinxes, which Mrs. Viele found too buxom, and which were then...
...class of '42, killed at Falaise in '44. Turner Chambliss Jr., '43, killed June 6, 1944. And so on, until you turn a corner and start finding George Tow and Samuel Coursen of the class of '49, killed in action in Korea, 1950. Over behind the Viele monument are the graves from Vietnam. There is a row in which 10 of 11 graves are occupied by members of the class of '66, and that does not begin to encompass that class's contribution. When that run ends, you have five in a row from the class of '64. One belongs...
Some have termed Gomes' approach to the decision cautious. James M. Slayton, a clinical instructor at Harvard Medical School, whose 1993 request to use Memorial Church sparked the initial controversy, said he believes that Gomes might have approached the issue cautiously because of controversy over a Civil War monument almost two years...
...area," as an admirer says. At any other time in history, that would win a fellow not much more than respect in the barracks shower. But this is the 1970s, and porno films are big business. Folks looking at Eddie's endowment gawk as if it were the Washington Monument. He is pornography's future: the Holy Groin. Those 13 inches in his pants will make Eddie a big bright shining star. With a star's neon name: Dirk Diggler...
...Regula is paying a 1000% premium, I have a four-bedroom, two-bath, with a partial view of the Washington Monument if you hang out of the dormer window, that I'd like to show him. Even allowing for sentimental value, $5 million is a stiff price to pay in this age of balanced budgets. Most presidential properties are bequeathed, gratis, by their owners at death to the National Parks Service. The government already has more parks than it knows what to do with, thanks to congressional pork--such as Steamtown (Pa.) and Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area. Meanwhile...