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...more monumental than Mount Rushmore: Abe Lincoln's face alone is three times the height of his statue in Washington. In a gigantic party last week, 3,500 revelers attended the 50th anniversary of the sculpture's completion. George Bush presided over a formal dedication ceremony and the launch of a $40 million fund-raising drive to renovate the memorial...
...Friday, it finally dawned even on the White House that the U.S. had a moral responsibility to do much more -- and quickly. From Newport Beach, Calif., en route to Los Angeles to help celebrate the 50th anniversary of the USO, Bush ordered American planes to air-drop food, blankets, clothing and other relief supplies to refugees suffering in the border mountains. He promised up to $10 million in emergency aid to the refugees. And he called for a major international effort to keep the Kurds from starving and dying while someone figures out what to do with them...
JOHN RUSSELL POPE AND THE BUILDING OF THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART, National Gallery of Art, Washington. The repository of some of the nation's most cherished pieces of art is celebrating its 50th anniversary with an exhibit of 75 drawings and photographs that explore the creation of the West Building and the career of its architect. Through July...
Program organizers hope one highlight will be Thursday's 50th Anniversary Archives Special, from 6:30 to 9 p.m., which will feature seven pieces of music played by college music groups and taped exclusively by the station. The special will include a 1972 Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra recording of Prokofiev's "Peter and the Wolf," narrated by President Derek C. Bok, said WHRB alumnus David R. Elliot '64-'65, secretary of WHRB's board of trustees...
Other plans for the 50th anniversary include an alumni reunion the weekend of May 11, said Sarah Wigglesworth '91. Wigglesworth said the staff hopes 5 to 10 percent of the 2500 WHRB alumni will come back for the celebration, slated to coincide with its Live Folk Orgy that weekend...