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Architect Pierre L'Enfant proposed a monument to the U.S. Navy when he designed the nation's capital in 1791, but not until last week, on the Navy's 212th anniversary, was a memorial to the service finally dedicated. The 100- ft.-diameter circular plaza on Pennsylvania Avenue "enshrines, in stone and metal, the gratitude of a nation," Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger told a crowd of 6,000 Navy veterans and other spectators...
...norm. "The year was 2081 and everybody was finally equal. They weren't only equal before God and the law. They were equal every which way. Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was quicker than anybody else. All this equality was due to the 211th, 212th, and 213th Amendments to the Constitution, and to the unceasing vigilance of agents of the United States Handicapper General...
Such was the scene played out last week on the eve of the 15th anniversary of the Communist invasion of South Korea. It was the 212th act of a farcical drama that faces little danger of closing: the periodic meetings of the Military Armistice Commission at Panmunjom on the 1953 Korean truce line. The initial, stated purpose of the commission-to police the armistice between the two Koreas-has long since been overshadowed by Red propaganda and invective. But the endless sessions serve as a grim reminder that Korea, where 54,000 Americans died and 50,000 are on active...
...opening class of the American Baseball Academy in Manhattan's 212th A.A.A. Armory, Yankee Shortstop Phil...
...Pacific reminds veteran cinemaddicts of many another picture, that is not strange. Paramount's 1,200th picture, it was produced and directed by the same man who made its first (The Squaw Man) 26 years ago. Union Pacific is the 65th picture Cecil Blount DeMille has directed, the 212th he has produced. Some signs that Producer-Director DeMille, who at 58 still affects the leather puttees and riding breeches of his salad days, is still going strong...