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...sentimental Capitol Hill ceremony mustering many of the Congressional colleagues who voted to end his 20-year Republican House leadership in 1959, a bust of Massachusetts' genial Representative Joseph Martin, 77, this week was unveiled in the "Hall of Fame" rotunda of the Old House Office Building. Sculpted by Suzanne Silvercruys Stevenson, artist sister of ex-Belgian Ambassador to the U.S. Baron Robert Silvercruys. the bust, commissioned by women's Republican clubs, will take its place alongside eight other hallowed Congressional heads al ready in the hall...
Despite all the soft comforts, one customer has found dangers: strolling past the taupe-gold-champagne Rotunda Reception Hall toward the Pompeiian Plaza, she became so enthralled by the decor that she tumbled smack into the Pompeiian pool. Fortunately, she had not yet changed into her Pompeiian gown and Pompeiian slippers. But she got antisepticized anyway...
Inevitably, the ceremony ran behind schedule. Jack Kennedy, waiting in a small chamber near the rotunda, whistled softly to himself. At last he got the word that everything was ready, walked out onto the windswept platform, sat down next to Ike, and the two passed a few minutes in an animated discussion of Cornelius Ryan's book on DDay, The Longest Day, which Kennedy had been reading. It was 12:13 o'clock-and even though he had not yet taken his oath of office, Kennedy, under the U.S. Constitution, had been President of the U.S. since...
...spaces as carefully marked as those in a parking lot, and about as large (the areas were frozen by Turkish Sultan Abdul Majid shortly before the Crimean War). The Syrian Orthodox, for example, may worship only in an area extending from the middle of the seventh pillar of the rotunda to a spot marked by a black cross on the right of the ninth column...
Completion of the 40,000 square foot "F"-shaped structure is expected within a year. The four-story building with a glass and concrete facade will be connected to the rotunda of the present College Observatory...