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There they dropped the placards into pine wood caskets behind the Grant Monument. Five drummers beat a dirge rhythm as the marchers filed...
...addition, the position paper voiced objections to the design and the designer of the new building. "In many ways the building as proposed does not even conform to the basic requirements of a decent environment," it charged. The paper called the design "a monument to the high-handed system of Harvard decision-making...
Late yesterday Kleindienst offered NMC a permit for the march which would allow the 300,000 expected demonstrators to proceed down Constitution Avenue passing the south area of the White House on route to the Washington Monument for a mass rally. The NMC leaders rejected the offer...
...past 18 years, the seven-member board has been headed by William McChesney Martin, 62, who has become almost as much a fixture in the capital as the Washington Monument. But his term in the $42,500-a-year job ends on Jan. 31, and by law he cannot be reappointed. Last week President Nixon announced his choice as successor to Democrat Martin. The new economic maestro is Arthur Frank Burns, 65, a self-described "moderate Republican," a longtime close aide of Nixon, and a stubborn anti-inflationist. For at least the next four years, the nation's money...
...transcendence. Blowing up buildings destroys the product. It destroys what was once thought to be permanent. If buildings begin to blow up all around, people may well ask for a new inquest into the permanent. People might abandon the idea of suffering through life to build a permanent monument. They might adopt the idea of enjoying and participating in the humility towards something else but oneself. This might be possible only after a socialist revolution where self could be rejected for community. Exploding buildings may help the transition...