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- <text id=91TT1552>
- <title>
- July 15, 1991: American Notes:South Dakota
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- July 15, 1991 Misleading Labels
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 25
- American Notes
- SOUTH DAKOTA
- Monumental Hoopla
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- <p> You can't get any 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.
- </p>
- <p> But not everyone was in a mood to celebrate.
- Environmentalists decry the busts as a desecration of nature.
- New Republic writer Alex Heard identified Gutzon Borglum,
- Rushmore's eccentric creator, as a member of the Ku Klux Klan.
- And the Sioux Indians charge that the memorial is sculpted from
- sacred land that was stolen by the government. In a gesture of
- reconciliation, the Ziolkowski family since 1948 has been
- carving an even grander likeness of Crazy Horse, the Sioux
- warrior, from a nearby mountain.
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- </body></article>
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