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Last spring, on the Quakers' tough hardcourts, Penn deprived Harvard of an unshared EITA championship with a stunning 5-4 upset. This season, since both squads lost heavily from their starting ladders but have rebuilt surprisingly well, the match could be equally close, and could again be decided where it was last season-at first singles...

Author: By John L. Powers, | Title: Battle of Unbeatens Netmen Host Quakers In Crucial Showdown | 4/22/1970 | See Source »

After revisiting Dresden, TIME Correspondent George Taber reported: "Standing in the Theaterplatz, you see the rebuilt Hofkirche and the art gallery with the Zwinger Museum in the back. But you also see the bombed-out skeletons of the opera and the royal palace. It is not a morose but an ambivalent feeling one has in Dresden. The restoration of the old masterpieces is encouraging and uplifting, but the sight of the unreconstructed ones reminds one of the senselessness of the attack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: East Germany: Dresden Rebuilt | 2/23/1970 | See Source »

...regularly for Catholic services. The old Landhaus (Statehouse), an imposing mansion reminiscent of Versailles, has been turned into a museum (see color pag?). The exquisite Kronentor (Crown Gate) on the moated Zwinger has been restored to its original splendor. The royal palace and the opera house are to be rebuilt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: East Germany: Dresden Rebuilt | 2/23/1970 | See Source »

...offensive of 1968, Viet Cong regulars overran the tiny hamlet of Huu Thanh in the Mekong Delta and destroyed nearly every building. Last week, as South Viet Nam celebrated the arrival of the Year of the Dog, government flags flew from every home and the town was almost completely rebuilt. In Hue, nearly wrecked by savage street fighting two years ago, crowds flocked to the reconstructed market, buying New Year gifts for their families from the 2,000-odd vendors. Pretty Saigon girls in ao dais posed for their boy friends' cameras before the city's monuments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: Inoffensive Tet | 2/16/1970 | See Source »

...place of worship before it was a fortress or trading center, with a magical attraction for men who had always lived in wandering groups or in villages. Prudence might have dictated other sites, but men returned, again and again, to the cities they remembered. Troy was destroyed and rebuilt so many times that archaeologists classify their discoveries as Troy I through IX; Troy VIIA was the "Ilios, city of magnificent houses," as Homer called it, that fell to the duplicity of Greeks. Leveled by the Romans, Carthage returned to life to become the third city of the Empire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: WHAT MAKES A CITY GREAT? | 11/14/1969 | See Source »

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