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Included in the plans for restoration are a new railing, with a weather vane at each corner, around the now barren top of the building; dormers over the clocks; various pinnacles down the side of the building; and copper sheathing for those portions which are covered by asphalt tile at the present time...
From its foundations, whose thickness once led to suspicions that they were planned as German gun bases, to the crest of its tower, whose weather vane is an outstanding replica of medieval European metal-work, the Busch-Reisinger Museum of Germanic Culture stands as a monument to one of the most checkered careers in Harvard archaeological history...
...Vane Effect. In Wilmington, N.C., charged with drunkenness the day after he had been convicted of drunkenness and ordered to leave town, John Cartwright, 50, explained: "Every time I raised my good leg off the ground, the wind would come and spin me around; I had to take a drink to steady myself...
LAURIE YOUNG, one of the last of the great steeplejacks relaxes in his boatswain's chair and appraises the condition of the weather-worn vane atop Memorial Church...
...critical acclaim and a typically French confusion of interpretations. A few saw the story of the Salem witch hunts as an indictment of Joe McCarthy; others interpreted it as a damnation of Communist persecutions. Commented Le Monde's critic: "This ancient history of sorcery, mobile as a weather vane, can as well be directed at the East as at the West...