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...struggle became increasingly unpopular at home, the now disbanded First Parachute Regiment joined the generals' putsch against Charles de Gaulle. After De Gaulle accorded Algeria its independence in 1962, the legionnaires disinterred their most illustrious dead from their desert graves and transported their pink Saharan granite Monument aux Morts from 118-year-old headquarters in Sidi bel-Abbés in Algeria to metropolitan France, together with their battle-worn flags, standards, regimental colors and a multitude of medals and decorations. These tokens of the legion's past now repose at its new headquarters at Aubagne, ten miles...
...hysterics over the Panama Canal? The canal is on the way to obsolescence. By the year 2000, when Panama takes over, it will be no more than a quaint monument to a time when we Americans could do anything. And the Panamanians will have nothing more han the popcorn and hot dog concessions at this museum...
...most of the enthusiasts, Sun Day was also an occasion for celebrating spring. In Washington, D.C., 20,000 people spent a day reveling en masse in the sun at the Washington Monument, which acted as a gigantic sundial. They threw Frisbees, jogged in a "sun run" around the mall, sang folk songs and listened to blue-grass music...
...Tulsa Hospital Council fought the project, arguing that the city already had a surplus of 1.000 hospital beds. Grumbled State Representative Mandell Matheson: "We are not talking about man building a monument to God, but man building a monument to man." The Oklahoma Health Planning Agency, a federal advisory board, recommended disapproval of Roberts' application. But after an intensive nationwide letter-writing campaign by the evangelist's supporters and lobbying by political friends, the state's health planning commission last week gave Roberts a go-ahead to begin building. Still, God's plans were somewhat modified...
...soon to be lost. April 12 will by Radio City's last day. The grand old mid-town monument will close its financially-floundering doors, and the next customers who visit the place will be the bulldozers. When they get through, New York City will have a big hole in the ground at the corner of 50th and Sixth. No more huge lines (those disappeared years ago), no more Rockettes, no more block-long candy counters...