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...General Eisenhower regarded a resolution adopted yesterday by party chairmen of eighteen Midwestern and Rocky Mountain states as a boost for their respective candidates. The resolution...favored "a candidate whose hands are not tied and who has no strings attached, who will wage war without wavering against the gigantic pyramid of unholy power which has been erected on the banks of the Potomac." --from The New York Times January...
Arkansas (Little Rock), Secretary: B. Cooper Jacoway, LLB. '32, Pyramid Building, Little Rock...
Ancient Point Four. About 1300 A.D., Sears decided, a thriving village surrounded the site of the mound. Its 1,000 inhabitants lived around a ten-acre plaza. At one end was a low earthen pyramid with a temple of some sort on top. The Kolomoki people were prosperous; they raised corn, beans and squash, probably imported at some earlier period from the high civilizations of Central or South America...
...Tribulations of St. Anthony, a skeleton-haunted Banquet of the Starved, a macabre dumb-show entitled Masks Confronting Death. His most famous picture, Entry of Christ into Brussels in 1889 (TIME, May 15,1950), was there too. It portrayed Christ as a tiny figure at the top of a pyramid of grinning masks, so shocked Ensor's contemporaries that it was not displayed in public until 1929, 41 years after it was painted. It was still unpleasant...
Biarritz canceled the unveiling, refused to pay Cousino, and had the pyramid carted off to the city dump. But Biarritz still wants Eugenie. The city fathers are looking for another sculptor...