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...gigantic statue of King Louis XV. The proposal was rejected, as were others to construct a white marble obelisk or an enormous sundial there. It was Napoleon who conceived the massive Arc de Triomphe in 1806 as a monument to the heroes of the French victory at Marengo. The arch was completed 30 years later during the reign of Louis-Philippe, and the place was laid out by Haussmann...
...Although the article on "Animal Polluters" [Sept. 14] was informative and well written, it cast a very poor image of Marengo, Ill. As a native of this Midwestern Utopia, may I inform you that Marengo is famous not for manure control but rather as the home of one of the nation's two mousetrap factories, a large apiary and a thriving mushroom farm. In short, Marengo is more than...
PHIL WESSON Marengo...
...container, and all she had to do was warm it up," says exurban New York Matron Maria Cunningham, 31. Not Maria. Veal, lamb and chicken are her favorites, and she and her husband like Julia's recipes for saute de veau Marengo, gigot de pre-sale roti a la moutarde, and supreme de volatile aux champignons, which they served recently at a dinner for 22. Says Maria: "The only thing that made it possible is that Julia tells all the things you can do in advance...
...whites. If they have been registering illiterate whites, then register illiterate Negroes." Katzenbach's instructions were fol lowed to the letter. Hundreds of Ne groes simply answered registrars' questions, signed an "X" in a couple of places and were put on the rolls. In Alabama's Marengo County, a registrar estimated that two-thirds of the first 50 applicants could neither read nor write. They were enrolled. It was a far cry from the days when Negro college graduates were contemptuously rejected by ill-educated Southern registrars for imagined failure to interpret a fine constitutional point. Surprisingly...