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Earlier, he had climbed high to the top of the Capitol rotunda, and hung over the banister, to photograph the guard of honor around the casket. But his most memorable shot-among four pages of color in this issue-was taken at the grave at Arlington. There, from about 150 yards away and with a 500-mm. telephoto lens-he movingly pictures Jackie, Bobby and Rose Kennedy...
Television networks covering Washington developments yesterday picked up a Harvard Glee Club-Radcliffe Choral Society concert as background music for several scenes of people filling past, the President's casket in the Capitol rotunda. The Glee Club and Choral Society, accompanied by 20 players from the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, were performing a previously scheduled concert in the Washington National Cathedral...
...like a monstrous radiator grille, will occupy a seven-acre site in the fair's transportation section, and will contain a "ride to the far corners of the earth." » THE FORD MOTOR COMPANY PAVILION, designed and engineered by Welton Becket, will have a 235-ft., glass-enclosed rotunda surrounded by 64 arching pylons. Adjoining this main entrance will be a flared rectangular exhibit building seven stories tall which will house a show to be created by Walt Disney. » THE BELL SYSTEM PAVILION, its ancient bell symbol blazoned incongruously on a dynamic modern facade designed by Harrison & Abramovitz...
...Louis one evening last week, a tall, commanding-looking Negro in a dark suit and vest walked into the main rotunda of the city's Old Courthouse. For 30 minutes, he stood there and told TV viewers the story of the slave Sam Blow who picked up the nickname Great Scott-pronounced Dred Scott in Sam Blow's Gullah accent-whose suit was tried twice in that courthouse...
Untidy Warren. The four-story granite house is composed of a series of suites grouped around a central rotunda, lit by a skylight that is invisible from the ground. No expense was spared on the interior fittings. Wrote William J. Murtagh, director of education of the National Trust for Historic Preservation: "It has the best frescoed walls I have ever seen in this country, and the lavishness of the marble and wood inlay work almost defies description...