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...Capitol Rotunda. On the day of the funeral, a uniformed attendant wheeled Martha Taft into the rotunda of the Capitol, where for a day her husband's body, in a closed casket, had lain in state, visited by thousands of people.* There the dignitaries gathered: President Eisenhower, Vice President Nixon, members of Congress, the Cabinet and the Supreme Court, Taft's old friend, Douglas MacArthur. The muffled brass of the U.S. Marine Band echoed through the corridors, and Senator John Bricker spoke the eulogy. Taft, who had always gone armed with a sense of humor, would have appreciated...
...Only twelve others have lain in state in the Capitol rotunda: Abraham Lincoln, Thaddeus Stevens, Charles Sumner, John A. Logan, James A. Garfield, William McKinley, Major Pierre Charles L'Enfant, Admiral George Dewey, the Unknown Soldier of World War I, Warren G. Harding, General John J. Pershing, and Robert Taft's father...
...pioneer fathers, few U.S. cities can outdo Salem (pop. 43,140), capital of Oregon. A brawny woodsman stands atop the capitol dome; pioneers flank the capitol entrance, a circuit rider sits astride a horse on the capitol grounds, and more pioneers stare bold-eyed from murals on the rotunda walls. Three weeks ago the city got a chance to put up still another tribute to its past, but this time it was a figure that looked strikingly different from the hardy frontiersmen. The statue: a hippy bronze nude by France's great Pierre Auguste Renoir...
...bustling rotunda of London's King's Cross station, a stocky, grim-faced little man strode briskly through the hurrying crowds this week, peering at the passing faces through horn-rimmed glasses. A few old hands at the station nodded recognition, and the word, went around: "Mr. Sutherland is back again." John L. Sutherland, 70, a Vancouver cement contractor, was back at King's Cross for the sixth time looking for his son, who is officially reported dead...
...landscape of Manhattan's West 53rd Street and drew as many as 2,000 spectators on a Sunday. This spring, the Ford Motor Co. will unveil a go-footer, made of such gossamer materials as aluminum spars, Orion fabric and Fiberglas, to enclose a large court in its Rotunda in Dearborn, Mich., as part of its soth anniversary celebration. This will bring this Fuller idea closer to practical use and success than most; it has hitherto been the fate of most of Bucky's dreams to blow up when the attempt was made to connect them...