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Elizabeth Noon. It was 28 years before, in August 1961 East Germany shocked the world. It builds a wall. This is the story of a modern Prometheus who changed the world with electricity. It was Nikola test. So in 1958 he donated the Hope Diamond to the Smithsonian. He mailed it to Washington, D. C. In a plain brown package insured for $1 million. It is exceedingly fitting that tonight's recipient of the American Jewish Committee's National Human Relations Award is Victor. We are a nation unbound by what is and steeped in the notion of what can be confined only by our own imaginations and dreams.