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...dawn rises rosy-fingered over the Brandenburg Gate. A golden rope stretched from east to west between the pillars of the gate shimmers in the dawn's early light. Above the monument, perched on a soft white cloud, is the Heavenly Choir, which to Beethoven's music sings...
...Stepped Monument...
...expedition finished excavating a great Persian stepped monument, perhaps the one referred to by the ancient historian Xenophon as the sepulchre of Abradatas and his faithful wife Pantheia. On the banks of the torrent Pactolus, the archaeologists also uncovered an Early Christian vault with wall paintings of birds and flowers...
This border contrasts far more radically with those of Czechoslovakia and Hungary and in matters far more significant than the time it takes to get a visa. Here, the only peculiarity in the alpine scenery is a sort of stone-henge monument celebrating the liberation from the Nazis in 1945. A road to Czechoslovakia or Hungary, on the other hand, will be heavily guarded by soldiers with dogs and by high sentry towers on the other side of the line...
Built as a personal monument by Detroit's auto-framing Fisher Brothers ("Body by Fisher"), the new theater cost $3,500.000, has a lobby big enough for tennis matches, is full of Italian marble, East Indian rosewood and cut-glass German chandeliers. The auditorium is steeply pitched to provide an unimpeded sight line, and the orchestra pit is recessed under the stage so the mouths of tubas cannot eclipse the legs of the chorines. Despite its huge capacity-bigger than any house on Broadway-no seat is more than 92 ft. from the stage. Designed by Chicago Architects Rapp...