Last week fog swirled over the Black Hills of South Dakota, over the sides of Mount Rushmore, ice formed a dripping glaze over four gigantic stone faces. Mount Rushmore had been finished long ago, but the 14-year chippings from these granite visages made it look unfinished: under their chins the mountainside fell away in a gigantic dribble of scree. And now the figures of these four great U. S. Presidents Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Theodore Rooseveltwould never be finished by their creator. For the man who had devoted nearly a quarter of his life...
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