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...everyone a day off for protest riots. Sure enough, next day a holiday crowd brought in by trucks from the provinces surged around the U.S. embassy in Kampala. The mob brandished signs proclaiming TO HELL WITH AMERICA-BLOODTHIRSTY GO HOME! While Cabinet ministers and parliamentarians beamingly watched from the plinth of the Obote Freedom Arch, two rioters scaled the embassy's roof and tore down the American flag...
...circular walkway, the tomb rises a few steps above an elliptical plaza, completing a 1.3-mile axis with the large Lincoln Memorial across the Potomac. The graves, including those of his two dead infants, are marked by flat slate stones set in a grassy plot bordered by a low plinth, where the eternal flame, cupped in a modern version of a classic oil lamp, will continue to burn. Behind it, but subordinate to the classic-revival facade of the historic Custis-Lee Mansion atop the slope, is a low, short wall, flanked by flowering magnolias, which will bear the presidential...
...Minister of Overseas Development. A pert redhead with a flair for fashion, she came from a Yorkshire Laborite family, was an ardent member of the old, deep-pink Popular Front Socialist League. Her idea of a Sunday in the park is addressing a crowd from a Trafalgar Square plinth. She has made all the Aldermaston ban-the-bomb marches, has long had a passion for emergent Africa, the purview...
...such a sellout that banks were forced to ration first-day collectors. Britain's government announced meanwhile that an acre of historic Runnymede, where Magna Carta was signed in 1215, will be given in perpetuity to the U.S. as a memorial to the late President; a simple stone plinth will be placed...
...foil set upon its hilt. As it picks up speed, the foil appears to dissolve into a flashing egg-shape. Another Tangible is a tower of aluminum rings suspended at artful intervals on almost invisible wires. Vibration makes the rings spin and lift like a quicksilver ballet. Plinth (see cut) carries sound as well as motion: at a certain point in the vibration cycle, the strip arcs out to strike a metal ball, which makes it resound like a gong...