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...France, continue to sympathize with the F.L.N. demand for independence. Higher wages for Moslem workers often help finance a bigger contribution to F.L.N. coffers, and time and again, French authorities have announced the destruction of the rebel "politico-administrative" organization in an Algerian town only to find it totally rebuilt within a few months...
...reflects the Germans' traditional musicality through a new prism. Germans are also inveterate collectors and joiners, and jazz gives them a whole new field to operate in. One well-known collector has 7,000 records; another, who lost his treasure in the war, is famed for having painfully rebuilt the "only complete Bessie Smith collection in Europe." For the joiners, there is the Deutsche Jazz Federation, which has 4.000 members in its 70 local "Hot Clubs...
...Nobel Prizewinner Niels Bohr's atomic research projects in Copenhagen; vast national parks-Wyoming's Jackson Hole, the Virgin Islands National Park, Maine's Acadia National Park; Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art; the site of the United Nations; the restored Reims Cathedral; and the rebuilt Stoa of Attalus in Athens. Colonial Williamsburg rose from the American past, and Rockefeller Center pointed to the American future (and changed the New York skyline). Schools, from Louvain to Tokyo and from Harvard to the University of Chicago (which his father founded in 1890), benefited...
...sank its tankers. The Group got another blow when the U.S. Government forced Jersey Standard to drop all cartel agreements in 1942, thus dissolving the As-Is agreement at a time when the Group's market positions were left badly exposed. But at war's end, it rebuilt its damaged installations so fast that Jersey Standard had little chance to cut deeply into the Group's markets. At first it financed most of its expansion from its own earnings and resources, but turned to world markets as it grew bigger to make it easier to raise cash...
When an earthquake nearly destroyed the church in 1928, the urn and its contents were found intact. Delfin Rojas, the church sexton, made it his special business to guard the urn while the church was rebuilt, and still preserves it carefully in a belltower storage room, among tattered and dusty saints and icons. Last week Interior Minister Luis Augusto Dubuc promised Sucre that General Garcia's remains this year will at last find their ultimate resting place in the Pantheon, as Venezuela marks the 150th anniversary of its independence...