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After Presley's body was moved to a new grave on the grounds of his Graceland estate, Carwile bought 1.75 tons of gray marble that lined the rock star's first tomb. Carwile had the marble cut into 44,000 chunks measuring 2 in. by 1 in., and last week, on the anniversary of Presley's death, announced he would sell the fragments for $80 each. The scheme might sound like monumental bad taste to anyone except a Presley fan. Says Carwile: "I'd feel guilty if I didn't share this with the fans...
Ralph G. Newman, president of the Ulysses S. Grant Association, protesting free-form benches placed around Grant's Tomb: "It's like having a roller-coaster ride running up and down the Lincoln Memorial...
...labor, Michelangelo was peremptorily summoned to Rome by Pope Julius II to design his tomb and later to paint the vaulted ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. "The place is wrong, and no painter I," grumbled Michelangelo, who considered himself first and foremost a sculptor. Three superb drawings of torsos show the pains he took over the huge scheme, which cost him four years of neck-straining labor...
...Ring, passing the Hofburg, and winding up in the courtyard of the Schönbrunn Palace, formerly the Habsburgs' summer residence, which he had asked especially to see. Brezhnev stepped out of his Zil only once, to lay a wreath at the Soviet war memorial (known to Viennese as the tomb of the "unknown plunderer...
...Poland's Unknown Soldier: I wished to kneel before this tomb to venerate every seed that falls into the earth and dies and thus bears fruit. All that, the history of the motherland shaped for a thousand years by the succession of generations- among them the present generation and the coming generation- and by each son and daughter of the motherland, even if they are anonymous and unknown like the soldier before whose tomb we are now. All that, including the history of the peoples that have lived with us and among us, such as those who died...