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From its foundations, whose thickness once led to suspicions that they were planned as German gun bases, to the crest of its tower, whose weather vane is an outstanding replica of medieval European metal-work, the Busch-Reisinger Museum of Germanic Culture stands as a monument to one of the most checkered careers in Harvard archaeological history...
...small crew dug in at Washington's Sheraton-Park Hotel to prepare the way for the flood of actors, floor men, engineers and assistant directors. Extra microphones, zoomar lenses, commercial props and TV slides were shipped down from Manhattan. One camera was even spotted atop the Washington monument for a bird's-eye view of the capital. Hostess Francis had to hop to rehearsal in Washington, back to New York for a Sunday performance on CBS's What's My Line?, back to Washington until Thursday, then to New York again for her ABC show, Soldier...
Witch-hunting had lost much of its glamour by the end of the eighteenth century, but the University faced its perennial housing problem, so the trustees decided to build another monument to the distinguished persecutor of Salem. In a curious reversal of roles, however, the General Court seemingly upheld civil liberties by refusing funds for the enterprise. Lacking any other resource, the crafty trustees held a series of lotteries and, in 1794, hit the jackpot, winning their own ten thousand dollar prize on a redeemed ticket. After this victory of the righteous, there was enought money to build Holworthy...
...speech before the United Auto Workers convention in Cleveland, Neely roared that the Eisenhower Administration is the "second everlasting monument to confusion," surpassed only by the Tower of Babel. The President, he acknowledged, was first in war. But he was also "the first of all Presidents on the golf course and the last to leave...
Another day, when he moved a motion for a public monument to his old Liberal friend, World War I Prime Minister David Lloyd George, Churchill spoke with such feeling that the House had the impression that he was applying the valediction to himself. "Pity and compassion lent [him] their powerful wings. He knew the terror with which old age threatened the toiler . . . He stood, when at his zenith, without a rival...