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...Channel crossing is now done may have deprived Dover of its 19th century character, except in places in the town where history asserts itself, such as Dover Castle, still garrisoned on the white cliffs where Normans first erected it, and the Roman Pharos, a lighthouse tower built in the 2nd century A.D. These days Dover looks like any small, half-hearted New England city--a shopping center of a town populated by dolled-up teen-agers, and mothers purposefully pushing babies in strollers. Shops specialize in videotapes, computer books and Kentucky Fried Chicken. A memorial to the dead...
Pittsburgh 7, Philadelphia 2, 2nd game...
Chicago 4, St. Louis 2, 2nd game...
Collins had discovered a secret weapon to get his tanks by Normandy's dense hedgerows. A sergeant in the 2nd Armored Division devised a way to attach to the front of a tank a pair of saw-toothed tusks, made from the steel barricades that once obstructed the landing beaches. These tusks could hack through a hedgerow in a few minutes...
Archaeology is something of a national sport in Israel. The most recently completed excavation is a 200-yd.-long stretch of the original Roman main street, called the Cardo. Under Emperor Hadrian in the 2nd century, the Romans made it a grand boulevard lined with columns and shopping arcades. It continued to be maintained under Byzantine rule. In 1971 a plan was devised to build a cluster of town houses and a shopping mall along the nearby Street of the Jews. But when ancient column stubs were found, from both Roman and Byzantine times, Architects Peter Bugod and Esther...