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...surface similarities were striking. Five hundred buses converged on the muggy capital. A vast crowd-half white, half black-marched from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial. Placards identified them as "Sisters of Watts" and "Concerned Citizens from Slippery Rock"; costumes identified them as Indians and Mexican-Americans, hippies and middle-class citizens of all shades. Young people waded thigh-deep in the Mall's giant reflecting pool, and families sprawled on the grass for picnics of fried chicken, chitlins and all manner of exotic salads. Even the numbing, five-hour drone of songs (four), speeches...
...Mellon who got a sudden impulse for a spot of tennis. After giving the assembled Mellons a ceremonial dinner in the Parliament building in Belfast, Prime Minister O'Neill journeyed next day to Omagh to help dedicate the ancestral cottage. Said he: "This home will forever be a monument not just to the Mellon family but to the potential of human character in a land of opportunity...
...ACRES OF newsprint written on Robert F. Kennedy's death are a monument to the insufficiency of words to capture very much of the horror of the event. There is something nearly obscene in our lust for facts--interviews with the Los Angeles ambulance driver or the engineer who drove the funeral train. And there is something both noble and terrifying in the passion of thousands of Americans to be part of the public mourning, shoving so hard to get near the funeral train are that two killed by an express speeding in the other direction...
...June. Stretching 1,058 miles across mountains and marshes, through thick jungle and dusty scrubland, the line will carry gasoline, kerosene and diesel oil from the port of Dar es Salaam on the Indian Ocean to the copper belt of landlocked Zambia. It will stand as one more monument to the widely varied skills of San Francisco's Bechtel Corp., the largest engineering and construction firm in the world...
...lined meadow between the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument, the 15-acre "Resurrection City" slowly began to take shape last week. As thousands of poor Negroes, Indians, Mexican Americans and a few Appalachian whites wound toward the capital in eight separate caravans from as far off as Seattle, Boston and Edwards, Miss., volunteer carpenters hammered together more than 200 tent-shaped, 10-ft. by 20-ft. plywood-and-plastic shelters to house them...