Word: monumented
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...THINK I draw him as a monument, a statue which walks and speaks, something mythical and historical." So says the cartoonist who drew this week's cover of France's President Charles de Gaulle-43-year-old Louis Mitelberg, who calls himself "TIM" simply because an editor once put that name on a cartoon he had neglected to sign. He is France's leading political cartoonist...
...Stilts. Washington's Dulles International Airport, opened for business last week, is a gleaming glass and concrete monument dedicated to the abolition of the dread Last Mile in jet travel. The roof is a concrete hammock slung between rows of gracefully leaning concrete "trees"; everything else is glass, clear and untinted. More important, passengers emplaning at Dulles need walk only 150 feet to board the aircraft, although the plane is parked half a mile away...
When Boston architect Henry R. Shepley '10 received an honorary degree at the 1957 Commencement, the citation said that "his monument is the good red brick and mortar of his college." Shepley had designed a host of University buildings, including the Houses and Lamont Library; and his death last weekend marked the end of an era in Harvard architecture...
...father to import some of the machines and recipes he had learned about. By the time the elder Weston died in 1924, the family business was already growing rapidly. But Garfield Weston was not satisfied. Said he: "I'm not going to build a costly monument to my father. I'm going to make his name known round the world...
...billion-dollar Aswan High Dam, partly financed by Russian credits, is to be the greatest monument in Egypt's history. Sixteen times the bulk of the Great Pyramid of Giza, the dam will create Lake Nasser, largest man-made lake in the world. According to the plans, it will bring into cultivation a badly needed million acres of now barren land, and double the present Egyptian output of electricity...