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Left exposed, the statues would have weathered away; underground, the fragments survived. Discovered and dug up 70 years ago, the statues were pieced together again. A large part of the museum's work has been to reconstruct the reconstructions. Artisans before World War II used iron bars to hold the fragments together. But now the bars are rusting. So Meliades is replacing them with bronze reinforcements, an operation he calls "responsible and sometimes breathtaking...
...high state income tax, extra excise taxes and local property levies that pass $90 per $1,000 valuation in Boston. (However, it should be pointed out that part of Furcolo's expenditure has gone to provide additional housing for the elderly, to establish nine state junior colleges, and to reconstruct the inadequate state road system...
...President Eisenhower, who stated in a recent press conference that the rebuilding of Clinton High School was a matter for state and local authorities. It is Algase's understanding, however, that since the State of Tennessee has not yet allocated funds for the school, private contributions are needed to reconstruct the dynamited building...
...their tireless effort to determine how Soviet policy is made, Western diplomats are often in the position of anthropologists trying to reconstruct a dinosaur from the evidence of one jawbone. But when Nikita Khrushchev performed his clumsy about-face on the summit meeting last week, the reason was plain to see. He had been driven to it by Red China's Mao Tse-tung...
...trouble is, the anecdotes are only too characteristic, but of doubtful veracity. Distant acquaintances tend to recall incidents which may not have happened at all, or may have happened to someone other than Roosevelt. And two or more memories, clouded with the passing years, often reconstruct the same events in differing form...