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...East Berlin still seems to be digging out from the rubble left by Allied bombardments and the advancing Red Army. The old German Cathedral, a stone's throw from Checkpoint Charlie and West Berlin, stands charred and roofless, awaiting renovation. On the once famous Unter den Linden promenade, the German State Library shows the pockmarks of bullets and shrapnel. But the war and subsequent dismemberment of the country have also left deep psychological wounds that have fostered the growing sense of unease in East Germany about the present stalemate in U.S.-Soviet relations...
...Saxony. At least 80 local artists and 400 craftsmen have spent four years and $120 million meticulously restoring the Semper Opera in Dresden, which was destroyed in an Anglo-American fire bombing raid in 1945. The famous equestrian statue of Frederick the Great that graced the Unter den Linden until World War II has returned to its pedestal like an old piece of furniture reclaimed from the attic and restored to its proper place. The sudden fascination with Frederick is the subject of a comedy titled The Prussians Are Coming, which is playing, appropriately enough, in Potsdam, where the King...
Schoenhof's is one of seven businesses in the Square seeking new or temporary housing. The store's old landlord, the Niles Company of Boston, plans to tear down several buildings on the Mass. Ave. block bounded by Linden and Plympton Streets and build a four-story office-retail complex...
Three more stores will temporarily close by Saturday, in preparation for the demolition of most buildings on the Mass Ave block between Plympton and Linden Streets. Briggs and Briggs Music Shop, which is in a building owned by the Harvard Club of Boston, will be the only business on the block not affected by the construction...
...October, the biggest surge in more than two years. At the same time, the Consumer Price Index rose only .4% during the month, continuing a trend of moderate increases that this year have pushed the rate of inflation ahead only about 4%. Says Consumer Expert Fabian Linden of the Conference Board, a business re-search group: "All the pieces are in place for a lively Christmas season...