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...survived by adopting radical new forms of life. The Christian cell of believers, worshiping in the catacombs, brought the church through centuries of Roman persecutions. In the Dark Ages of the 9th century, the fortress monasteries of the Benedictines saved the faith of Europe-and the culture of its Greco-Roman past-from the triumph of marauding barbarians...
...R.S.V.P.s. A crowd of 200,000 turned out happily on the Place de la Concorde to dance in the street, watch fireworks, and cheer Fernandel, Juliette Greco, the cancan line of the Moulin Rouge. Some of the old squabbles were revived: the Communists and Socialists boycotted many of the ceremonies. But once again De Gaulle rose above all that. In his Hotel de Ville speech, he sounded the suitable notes of glory, but he also dared to chill his listeners with a reference to how and why France had fallen in the first place...
SPAIN. The pavilion is the most beautiful at the fair, suggests the courtyards of Castile and the filigreed palaces of Andalusia. To it, Spain brought the best she has: priceless paintings by Goya, El Greco, Zurburán and Velásquez, three prize Picassos, as well as folk dancers who perform in the gardens, bullfight movies and three fine restaurants...
SPAIN. The fair's blue-ribbon pavilion puts on a five-star show of art and culture: in the gallery, Goya's great majas and paintings by El Greco, Velasquez, Picasso and Miro; in the breezy interior terraces, sculpture and murals by modern abstractionists; in the Market Plaza, native-costumed folk dancers...
...alone been there. Most of it can be reached only by yacht, many of which are chartered in Athens, and there are no hotels-only peasant villages, sandy beaches, rocky promontories, azure water, clear skies and a background of snow-capped mountains. This coast was once a favorite Greco-Roman resort area (one town with a modern population of 500 has an ancient amphitheater with a seating capacity of 30,000), and on one beach the sea laps at the steps of a ruined temple and the traveler swims among marble columns. Not surprisingly, a few rich Europeans and Americans...