The Nation: Second Hottest Show in Town

AMERICAN SCENE Second Hottest Show in Town

The hottest show in Washington is, of course, the advent of the new Administration. Without question, the second hottest show is the spectacular new National Air and Space Museum. Attendance for the first six months has reached more than 5 million, nearly double the projections. TIME Correspondent Jerry Hannifin has touched down in the museum almost a dozen times. His report:

Along the vast greensward that sweeps from the foot of Capitol Hill to the Washington Monument, there glitters the newest star of the Smithsonian Institution....

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