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...Lyndon Johnson intended, the 1964 civil rights bill was a monument to John Kennedy, the measure that became law last week will stand in part as a memorial to Martin Luther King. The 1968 Civil Rights Act, opening some 80% of all the nation's housing to Negroes, should also endure as a major legislative landmark of the Johnson Administration. "The proudest moments of my presidency," said L.B.J. at the bill-signing ceremony in the White House, "have been such times as this when I have signed into law the promises of a century...
Ominous Omissions. Drawn up under the personal supervision of Ulbricht, the new document is a monument to his tough brand of Communism. It empowers the Council of State, of which Ulbricht is the chief, to veto any decisions by other government branches, including those of the courts. Slavishly socialist, it pledges eternal devotion to the Soviet Union and declares that East Germany has the responsibility to lead the rest of Germany "into a future of peace and Socialism." Formally establishing the old Marxist goal of the dictatorship of the proletariat, it states that "all political power is exercised...
...competitors in U.S. golf's most prestigious tournament can win the $20,000, the green coat and the lifetime playing privileges, but all will leave proud that they were even invited to play at Augusta National, the club that three-time Masters Champion Jack Nicklaus calls "a monument to everything great in golf...
There are drive-in movies, restaurants, laundries, banks and even churches-so why not a drive-in funeral home? Atlanta Mortician Hirschel Thornton, 49, will open one this week. The world's first monument to automotive mourning consists of five picture-windowed viewing rooms frontin on a curved, gravel driveway. So that drive-in mourners will not have to peer through rain-streaked windows, Thornton has covered the driveway with a roof. Another thoughtful touch: the windows reach almost to the ground, enabling passengers in even the lowest-slung foreign sports cars to get a good look without having...
...hospital is a monument to what man can do, but it stands alone, dwarfed by the stunning poverty of the land, the fascism of Papa Doc, and the terrorism of the Tonton Macoute--more sobering monuments to what man actually does.Stories of executions by the TONTON MACOUTE are common. Recently, after a Haitian citizen had been murdered on broad daylight, a judge ruled that he had died a natural death...