Word: obelisk
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Concord's Common has a commemorative obelisk. We passed through town to a national park at the site of the old North Bridge. Before you get to the bridge a monument tells you that this was the site of the first armed resistance to the British. Across the bridge a path leads up to an impeccably manicured garden and a visitors' center...
...proper leadership goals of a great nation." Vermonters were in for a bipartisan treat. Democratic ex-Governor Philip Hoff, an early McCarthy backer, and conservative Republican Lieutenant Governor Thomas Hayes agreed to speak at a rally?in the Bennington National Guard Armory. Following that: a candlelight march to the obelisk that commemorates the Battle of Bennington...
...warm. This was really goodbye to the great love of Lyndon Johnson's life, the U.S. Congress. His car hurried through the clear, cold night of Washington, back toward the White House. He rode with Lady Bird, and they swooped down Independence Avenue and around the white obelisk of the Washington Monument and then back to the South Portico. L.B.J. was a different and silent man, because this at last was his public finale and his personal adieu...
...Though he is pleased with the return of the symbol of his legendary succession from King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, Emperor Haile Selassie is not satisfied. The trophy he wants most still stands near Rome's Circus Maximus. It is a finely carved, 83-ft. granite obelisk that once rose above Ethiopia's ancient capital of Axum...
...molded like coffee mugs, Mickey Mouse heads or crumpled rags; they are to be used as "players" on a six-foot-square, diamond-patterned board in mystical, Melchert-invented games that the spectator is supposed to play against himself. When Melchert had an exhibition recently at Boston's Obelisk Gallery, faculty members at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where even the computers play games, found his work so diverting that they convinced M.I.T. it should buy one of the sets, for more than...