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...Some 2,000 Colorado Shriners dressed up like Arabs and went to the Great Sand Dunes National Monument for an induction ceremony. They penetrated the sandy wastes in tractor-drawn wagons, put up a ceremonial tent, ate barbecued buffalo and applauded dancing girls whom they had brought along to undulate on the sands...
...look forward to, if she wanted to accept it. The will of a 71-year-old bachelor Tennessee preacher-a stranger, and a lonely Democrat in moun-tainy, Republican Greene County-left her his two-story farmhouse and most of his 247 acres, provided she raise a modest monument over his grave. But she would have to wait to move in. The preacher's niece, thirtyish, is to have the right to live there during her lifetime...
...Casey, highballing south from Durant, Miss, at the throttle of the Illinois Central Railroad's locomotive No. 638, yelled across the cab at Webb: "Oh, Sim! The old girl's got her high-heeled slippers on tonight!" The occasion for this reminiscence: the unveiling of a monument on Casey's grave, for 47 years marked only by a wooden cross...
Three days before, a quiet group of men had quietly laid a wreath at Whitehall's Cenotaph, Britain's monument to valorous Britons. It was inscribed:' "In memory of Sergeant Martin and Sergeant Paice, who died doing their duty in Palestine, July 30, 1947. From their Jewish ex-service comrades of the British forces." And it was signed with many names. Among them: Major Sir Jack Benn Brunei Cohen, who lost both legs in World War I; Wing Commander Lionel Cohen, who won the D.F.C. at the age of 68 in 1944, after 45 R.A.F. operational flights...
...addition to the center, the ballots given to students listed proposals for scholarships (receiving a 17.4 percent vote), hockey rink and auditorium (16.9 percent), music center (3.3 percent), new infirmary (2 percent), music center (3.3 percent), new infirmary (2 percent), monument statue, plaque, etc. (1.8 percent), as well as space for write-in suggestions, which provided the remainder of the votes