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...ancient Mediterranean pastels; its houses are tall, tiled and close-standing; sailboat masts bob gently above their rooftops. At dusk, old-fashioned gas lamps (converted to electricity) glow softly. The impression of a quaint old setting is so strong that many visitors are convinced they are in a rebuilt medieval village. One tourist last week asked his wife whether she did not remember seeing the place in ruins five years ago, and insisted: "They've done a wonderful job of restoration...
Troy, they "came to the two fair-flowing springs, where two fountains rise that feed deep-eddying Skamandros." As it happens, Berve notes, Schliemann's excavations revealed not one Troy but a city that had been repeatedly destroyed and rebuilt over a period of more than a thousand years...
Seeking to commemorate the occasion, Westminster began looking for a memorial in 1961. The college decided that nothing could be more appropriate than a church designed by Sir Christopher Wren. As surveyor to King Charles II, Wren had rebuilt London after the Great Fire of 1666, creating out of its ashes a new city-as indomitable an assertion of man's stubborn will to survive as was Churchill's trumpeted defiance when the bombs fell on Wren's London during World...
Each one of St. Mary's 7,000 exterior stones was taken down, numbered, and shipped across the Atlantic. They were then reassembled on a knoll at the edge of the Westminster campus. Dedicated two weeks ago, the rebuilt church is complete with a new roof, new bells, new organ, humidity control and air conditioning...
Some of the men seemed mutations of themselves. At American expatriate's face had been completely destroyed when he settled in Paris and had been rebuilt on the model of a stranger. One of the photographers had been a rock-and-roll star. The American unit publicist was on leave from a seminary in California, where he was preparing for the Unitarian Universalist ministry, his negotiations with the U.S. government on obtaining the brothel concession in Vietnam having fallen through...