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Aging memorial slated for facelift/ $40 million sought for Mount Rushmore
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MOUNT RUSHMORE NATIONAL MEMORIAL, S.D. - Mount Rushmore National
Memorial, the nation's Shrine of Democracy, turns 50 next year, and
the Fourth of July will be the kickoff for extensive work at the
mountain carving.
President Bush has been invited, and comedian Bob Hope is the
honorary chairman of the celebration.
Mount Rushmore, a granite mountain featuring the sculpted
likenesses of George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson
and Theodore Roosevelt, is in the Black Hills about 20 miles south
of Rapid City. Sculptor Gutzon Borglum's crew completed work on it
in 1941.
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