Tag: Statue of Liberty
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Afrikaner Memorial gets new owners
By GENE MUSTAIN and MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writers | Wednesday, April 13, 1994 PRETORIA—The prospect of black majority rule has resulted in the privatization of this country’s most famous monument. In a move akin to turning the Statute of Liberty over to the Manhattan Institute, the departing white minority government has transferred…
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After 27 years, man retires from job as keeper of Lady Liberty’s flame By MICHAEL O. ALLEN
Sunday, September 26, 1999 Over the years, Charlie DeLeo figures, he must have climbed the iron girders through the upraised arm of the Statue of Liberty to the torch more than 2,500 times. “I knew it was time to leave because my legs gave out,” he conceded one day last week. Thursday was DeLeo’s final…