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Five years ago a task force financed by Boston's Byzantine Institute carefully eyed the walls in another Istanbul church, Kariye Camii, rebuilt on an older structure in the early 14th century and later converted into a mosque. With official blessing, the restorers went to work, soon realized that they had found a new jewel case of Byzantine art. With the job only three-fourths completed, their most significant find has been a set of 18 mosaic panels depicting the life of the Virgin Mary. Says Professor Paul A. Underwood, field director of the Istanbul project, who this week...
...turned down cold by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago when he applied for permission to give a high-diving exhibition to raise money for his parish. Since 1947, high-diving Pere Simon has given some 35 performances in Europe (TIME, Sept. 3, 1951), the proceeds of which have rebuilt his war-damaged church, erected a dispensary and brought nursing sisters to his village. Simon announced his intention of trying his luck in another diocese. "It is true I am an athlete," he said, "but above all else I am a priest who is interested in furthering the well-being...
Although the White House was virtually rebuilt in 1949-52 at a cost of $5,800,000, the new repairs are necessary and routine: since the mansion was reopened in April 1952, some 3,039,220 tourists have inspected it. The public is admitted five days a week between 10 a.m. and noon, and despite the brief visiting hours, tourists troop through at the rate of 3,000 a day (sometimes more than twice that in the spring, when Washington's tourism is at a peak). Inevitably, the floors have been scarred by more than 6,000,000 heels...
Golden Water. A mere five centuries ago, long after the Mongols were driven out, Peking was rebuilt. Ming Emperor Yung Lo followed his astrologer's plan to make the city a geomantic portrait of No Cha, a three-headed monster with six arms. Its heads became the main gate, its intestine an open gutter and its navel a well. When Yung Lo had finished, Peking was a series of walled cities within cities, like a Chinese puzzle, box within...
...Haut atop a nearby hill called Haul Lieu. Hallowed since pagan days, Haut Lieu lies near the invasion route through the Belfort Gap, and in war it makes a prime military observation post. Over the centuries the chapel has been repeatedly destroyed; each time it has been faithfully rebuilt by loyal parishioners...