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...lifting two-ton blocks of Indiana limestone up into the reaches of the cathedral's turreted Gloria in Excelsis tower. When completed two years from now, the 300-ft. tower will soar over Washington, surpassing in height (because of its hilltop location) the 555-ft. Washington National Monument...
...large part, Soviet Russia is a monument to Karl Marx. It was Marx's Communist Manifesto, written with Frederick Engels in 1848, that became the blueprint for the Russian Revolution of 1917, and Marxist doctrine still guides Russia today. From Lenin to Khrushchev, Russia's Communist leaders have placed the full-bearded German Jew high on the honor roll of their country's heroes. But no man is less deserving of that dubious distinction-an irony of history recalled this week with publication of a slender book, Marx vs. Russia (Frederick Ungar Publishing...
...Rusk seemed ready to offer Russian Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin some of the semi-concessions that the U.S. had suggested before* but stood firm on all essentials. Khrushchev's boldest move in 1961 was to raise the Berlin Wall; today it seems less like a master stroke than a monument to the misery of 100 million souls imprisoned in East Europe...
David Brinkley (NBC, 10:30-11 p.m.). The Washington, D.C. monument dilemma and the Baird puppets in India. Color...
What was Yalie reaction to this monument? There was so much sneering and jeering, so much callow, loudmouthed, self-satisfied commentary from the Yale audience that the sound track was usually inaudible, the flow of language lost. There was a good deal of cheering for home states and home towns. If a banjo played, it was necessary to clap our Yalie hands. If a march came on it was necessary to stamp our collective, sophomoric feet...