Word: salem
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...taste of traditional glare and excitement when Independence Day rolls around this week-the "Horribles," grotesquely costumed children, will parade along a few village streets, and some towns will light big bonfires at midnight on the Third (a pile of barrels a hundred feet high awaits the torch on Salem's Gallows Hill). But the U.S. as a whole will have a much more sterile diet-packaged fireworks shows in city parks and packaged patriotic sentiments on television...
Washington's travail promptly began again the next summer. His army, beaten on Long Island, escaped across the East River to Manhattan, thanks to a fog, regiments of Salem and Marblehead boatmen, Providence, and Washington's daring. It fought and retreated to White Plains, fought and retreated across the Hudson-and across New Jersey-and across the Delaware River into Pennsylvania. As winter deepened, only 2,400 ragged, ill-fed Continental regulars were left. On Dec. 20, 1776, Washington wrote to Congress: "Ten more days will put an end to the existence of our Army...
When it comes to honoring the 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...
...statue was to be erected in front of the new Marion County courthouse as a bequest from Carroll L. Moores, an obscure Salem janitor who died in 1938. Janitor Moores left his life's savings (chiefly real-estate holdings now worth $34,000) in trust for "a monument . . . in memory of early Oregon pioneers." Last year the trustee chose a committee (among its members: Director Thomas Colt of the Portland Art Museum, Pietro Belluschi, dean of architecture at M.I.T.), gave it free rein to find a suitable work. Renoir's Venus Victorieuse, the committee thought, was "universal...
...Salem citizens took one look at a newspaper photograph and erupted with rage. "Fat and naked," cried the Salem Capital Journal. Mayor Al Loucks's phone was busy ten hours a day with protests. "What we want," said one member of the Lions, "is a statue of a pioneer woman in a gingham dress and a sunbonnet . . not this trash." Said Oswald West, 80, a former governor of Oregon: "The pioneer mothers would rise up out of their graves and pin a horse blanket around the hussy." "The pioneers," snapped Frank Jenkins, editor of the Klamath Falls Herald & News...