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That was in 1947. Ever since, in the unicameral legislature, in letters-to-the-editor columns of the press, in the gathering places of Omaha, the controversy has raged on. Bryan meanwhile stood stolidly on the steps, collected lichens and gazed placidly at the vista of ramshackle boardinghouses across the square. Last week the issue was finally settled: by a vote of 25-12, the legislature agreed to let the Great Commoner remain on his pedestal on a permanent basis...
Last week the old conqueror was moved. City architects, demolishing some buildings to give a clear vista toward one side of the big presidential palace which has replaced Pizarro's old palace, created a small park plainly in need of embellishment. So they simply sent around a crane which plucked the 6½-ton statue of Pizarro from its old base and set it in the park. The conqueror's bronze eyes are still within eyeshot of the plaza he founded, but, as one of his defenders indignantly protested, "they have shoved him from the parlor...
...Memorial Drive traffic more of a dilemma than it is already. Although a few signs and a few posts will clutter up the Houses' classic view of the Charles, they are far better decorations than pieces of glass, fender, and smashed tree that will otherwise continue to festoon the vista every week...
...joined the Navy. In 1945 Robert Jackson took him to Germany to handle public relations at the Nürnberg war-criminal trials. In 1946 Dean returned to California to teach law at the University of Southern California and to raise lemons and avocados on his ranch in Vista. From this pleasant exile he was rescued in 1949 by McMahon, by then Senator from Connecticut and chairman of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy...
DOROTHY BURKHART Chula Vista, Calif...