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...American Jew" [June 25]. You have caught beautifully the pride of being a Jew, the pride of belonging within a great people, the pride of helping to build a nation, and the love of the U.S. Considering the history of the Jews for 57 centuries, this development is a monument to the validity of free institutions. Of course, there is always the danger of euphoria. For, we all know, the evil of anti-Semitism lurks even here in alleys and cracks and in dark minds, ready to break out if we are not entirely vigilant. But in mounting this vigilance...
...newest monument to the New Harvard, the Roy E. Larsen Hall at the Ed School, received its first callers yesterday. A group of old Cambridge ladies, a priest, and a few merely curious toured its nine floors of light-controlled, heat-regulated bare cinder block halls and unfurnished beige rooms. The building, they decided, backed soul...
Elizabeth must have read the papers, for the next day, at the Bonn city hall, she was positively beaming. When she laid a wreath on the nearby Beethoven monument, the crowd responded with loud cheers and chants of "Elizabet, Eliz-a-bet." That night, after entertaining 88 dignitaries at dinner atop the Petersberg, the Queen and her guests stepped onto the terrace to watch "The Rhine in Flames," a dramatic fireworks display that covered the river halfway to Coblenz, 30 miles away...
...beach resort of Sables-d'Olonne, he cried, "This country, this France which has bound its wounds, is recovering its power, its influence; this France which is increasingly reckoned with from one end of the world to the other . . ." In Sainte-Hermine, he laid a wreath at the monument to Georges Clemenceau, the French "Tiger" of World War I, and said: "Today, France is as Clemenceau would have wished: independent, free, mistress of her destiny...
...Cuba and Cyprus sent representatives to Winneba, the conference was pointedly ignored by all of Nkrumah's neighbors, and most of Africa's moderate states dis trust him. There was, in fact, only one redeeming event: to mark the conference opening Nkrumah unveiled a 75-ft. monument of himself. The work of a Polish sculptress, it is the biggest, solidest Nkrumah in the world...