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Street of Failure. If the garment district was a reminder of U.S. opportunity, this part of Sixth Avenue (which no self-respecting New Yorker could bring himself to call the Avenue of the Americas) was a monument to American failure. No hour of the day or night found bar-lined Sixth Avenue without a few drunken men & women; no upper Sixth Avenue crowd ever looked happy or even gay. At the Miami Theater coming attractions were Primitive Love and Guilty Parents. Even...
Cambridge quietly celebrated the one hundredth anniversary of its incorporation Sunday, postponing the fanfare until the week of July 4. Plans include a historical pageant to be held at Soldiers Field and the dedication of a plaque commemorating Washington's assumption of the Continental Army command and a monument honoring veterans of World...
C.O.D.? In Stockholm, Sweden, stonecutters were still chipping away at a 1940 order: one victory monument for Adolf Hitler...
...Mexican Revolution, though dead, might be made to contribute to national unity and, incidentally, to P.R.I, prestige. Dr. Rafael Pascacio Gamboa's suggestion: disinter the bodies of Emiliano Zapata, Pancho Villa, Alvaro ObregÓn, rebury them with full and traditional pomp in a crypt beneath the Monument to the Revolution...
Mexicans call the monument "La Gasolinera" because of its likeness to a giant filling station. It was built by Porfirio Diaz not as a monument but as the central portion of his legislative palace. But revolution caught up with Don Porfirio, the palace was never completed, and ultimately the framework was sheathed with stone, to stand as an ungainly testimony to Diaz's overthrow...