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...Antonio, two young architects in shorts and T shirts clamber over the crumbling, eroded walls of Mission Concepcion, a church-cum-fortress built by the Spanish in the early 1700s. "These structures are dissolving," says John Schlinke, a recent graduate of the University of Virginia. "The stone is melting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: Sticks and Stones of History | 9/5/1983 | See Source »

...fable of the decline of the Western world. But as a short-story writer, she achieved the violent grace of a folk ballad. Something atavistic, something frontier-Texan came out in her. The sentences cut, like the wife's knife stabbing her husband's lover in "Maria Concepcion," like the farmer's ax splitting the head of his tormentor in "Noon Wine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Folk Ballads | 12/6/1982 | See Source »

...Cincinnati Reds announced that shortstop Dave Concepcion had agreed to a five-year contract. Concepcion had been headed for free agency...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scoreboard | 10/7/1981 | See Source »

...became the youngest mayor of Concepcion, while continuing in his capacity as special assistant for foreign affairs to Magsaysay. In 1957, he worked as special domestic adviser to President Garcia before becoming governor of Tarlac province...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: The Man in the Middle | 9/26/1980 | See Source »

...shortstop, the Yanks' Fred Stanley has practically become a household word. Dave Concepcion is no match for this .240 hitter. The same is true at third base. How can Pete Rose, with a .323 average, compare to Graig Nettles, whose average hovered around .245 this year...

Author: By Marc M. Sadowsky, | Title: Marc My Words | 10/16/1976 | See Source »

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