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...grey helicopter, its red lights blinking, swung past the floodlit Washington Monument, came down onto a steel landing pad on the south lawn of the White House, some 70 feet from Caroline and John Kennedy's treehouse, swing and jungle-gym set. Johnson walked through the flower garden into the oval presidential office. There secretaries had cleared Jack Kennedy's desk of personal mementos: a coconut shell on which he had carved a message of his survival after his PT boat sank in World War II, a silver calendar noting the dates of his confrontation with Nikita Khrushchev...
...same gigantic dimensions that make Abu Simbel so impressive as a monument make it almost impossible to move. Most of the other monuments threatened by the High Dass have been moved to safety with relatively little trouble and expense. Some will be taken all the way out of Egypt, as rewards by the U.A.R. for archeological aid from other . The stopped-up starch for buried raise that will be hidden permanently by the Nile has been happened only by climate, red tape and a lack of Egyptologist. But Abu Simbel presents a special case...
...ensure wide ownership, individual and corporate purchases would be permanently limited. Total corporate ownership, depending upon how well individual sales go, could be held to 30% or less. The lower the better! This would create an economic monument to American taxpayers, additional dignity for competent TV A employees, and several measures of in security for the politically oriented, smug, libertine bureaucrats...
...four steel bearings atop its own Woodbury White granite plaza. Headlined the irreverent Yale Daily News: TOMB CONCEALS DECAYED BOOKS. Students instantly dubbed it "The Waffle," but it is the most frankly dramatic of the new buildings at Yale. In his new library, Bunshaft has made books the monument. First editions are arrayed in a glass tower for all to see-and to use. To keep out damaging direct rays of the sun, Bunshaft has provided outer walls of translucent Vermont marble that luminously filters the outside light...
...magazine's headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., is an overgrown Western ranch-all adobe walls and in door barbecue pits. Streams meander over the property; flowers riot in the border beds. The setting could serve as a monument to leisure living, Western style, and that is exactly what it is. In this sun-kissed journalistic keep south of San Francisco, the Western way of life is reverenced as a backyard religion because Sunset Magazine is its priest...