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...fruits of Davidson's enthusiasm went on view in Manhattan. Standouts were his bust of Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion, looking like a resolute sailor in a storm, and a bronze head of Israel's President Chaim Weizmann. Shortly after the creation of that small but eloquent monument to the eternity of life, both Weizmann and Davidson himself died...
...hundredth anniversary of the birth of José Martí, the island's liberator. A ballet, headed by Cuba-born Alicia Alonso, performed nightly in an outdoor theater; 7,000 torch-bearing paraders marched at midnight; schoolchildren dropped a thousand white flowers at the base of the Marti monument. For a week, Cubans laid aside strong talk about their strong man, General Fulgencio Batista, and gave themselves over to honoring one of Latin America's greatest, though least known, historical figures...
Reporter Fontaine has not always been welcome. He was able to talk to Communist workers at the Renault plant outside Paris only by pretending to be a Swedish journalist. During the Communist Peoples Congress for Peace in Vienna, he had to set up shop next to a Russian tank monument before the suspicious delegates would let themselves be interviewed. But in all his wanderings, he ran into censorship only once: SHAPE public relations officers refused to let him interview allied soldiers on the difference between European and U.S. army pay. Says Fontaine: "They told me that was dynamite...
...past, it had passed into private hands but had hung on to become one of the oldest elementary schools in the U.S. Still structurally sound, the academy, where Robert E. Lee studied before going on to West Point, may be preserved by sentimental Alexandrians as a historic monument...
Only Kliment Voroshilov, whom Stalin always calls Klim, regularly ribs back. Budu once heard him tell Stalin a story that was going the party rounds about a proposed monument to Pushkin: "Several sculptors submitted drawings . . . The one Stalin picked showed a massive statue of Stalin holding a book on which was carved in small letters: 'Pushkin's Poems.' " Stalin laughed first, loud & long...