Word: rotundas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...signing, the President drove to the Capitol, appeared in the Rotunda before an audience of 800 Congressmen, Cabinet officers, civil rights leaders and others. To his right was a statue of Abraham Lincoln, to his left a bust of the Emancipator. On national television and radio, the President recalled that the first Negro slaves in the U.S. were landed at Jamestown in 1619. "They came in darkness and chains," he said. "Today we strike away the last major shackle of those fierce and ancient bonds...
...Huge, castellated, rotunda-capped, the Del Coronado Hotel dominates the Coronado peninsula, just across the Bay from San Diego. While it now caters to conventions, it still holds the loyalty of longtime visitors, including almost anybody who is anybody in Hollywood...
Courted ardently for his collection, Justin Thannhauser recently decided to bequeath the majority of his works to Manhattan's Guggenheim Museum. His reasoning: "My collection complements the museum's." Placed on exhibition last week in newly opened galleries off the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed spiral rotunda, Thannhauser's paintings fit so well into the museum's formerly limited collection that in one stroke they make the Guggenheim a historical showcase of modern...
...arms race--the camera shifts abruptly to the funeral procession. At one moment, for example, Kennedy is in Costa Rica--speaking, laughing and shaking hands. "He was never to stand in Latin America again," says the narrator, and the scene breaks to a view of the casket in the rotunda...
...same limousine in which Kennedy had been shot, now covered with a new roof of steel and bulletproof glass. In the car with Lyndon and Lady Bird was North Carolina's Democratic Senator Everett Jordan, an old friend. Lyndon was whisked to a private office off the Rotunda, where he inserted his contact lenses. Then he walked to the platform. The temperature was 38°,* but neither Johnson nor Humphrey wore an overcoat...