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Drawings call for a 40,000 square foot "F"-shaped structure with a glass and concrete facade. The building will be connected to the rotunda of the present College Observatory, and will provide complete office and laboratory space, as well as room for a new high-speed IBM 709 digital computer--a faster model than the one now used by Smithsonian to track earth satellites...
Motor Co. and asked to put up a dome to cover an exhibition rotunda in Dearborn. Visitors came, marveled, and soon the world was beating a path to Ducky's door...
...Rivera's stature might be compared to a rocket that dies boosting a satellite in the form of art. Symbolically enough, his last completed picture was of a baby holding a Russian satellite. He was buried with much honor, but naturally no church rites, in Mexico's Rotunda of Illustrious Men. While Mexican Communists paraded the hammer and sickle. Fellow Painter David Siqueiros made the chief oration, larding it with Communist mouthings. "Even here," cried one of Rivera's daughters, Guadalupe, "you make your propaganda!" "Yes," Siqueiros answered. "Just as Diego...
...their colleagues "have lost their sense of values, are more interested in personal advancement and the applause of the folks back home than they are in Christian principles of right and wrong." An effigy bearing the names of Sadler and Chapman dangled on the campus; another hung from the rotunda of the Capitol. Eighty student members of the Young Republicans and Young Democrats adopted a resolution condemning the university's action as a "flagrant" violation of the "principle of an equal chance for everyone...
...Once upon a time I was young, frivolous, carefree, and relatively slim. That was way back in 1953 A.D. I had the longest reddest nails of anyone who worked at Bergdorf Goodman and I used to stand elegantly in Bergdorf's marble rotunda . . . looking just as soignée as all get out . . . Every Friday they paid me fifty lovely dollars, less withholding, less social security, less retirement benefits, less hospitalization, and I could do just about anything I liked with the change. My husband, Bill . . . worked a little farther down Fifth [and] except for an occasional ink stain...