Word: caving
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...familiar cave girl of the cartoons-dragged toward a cave by a club-lugging male-is usually smiling, as if well pleased with her prospects. This cheerful view of history got a setback last week from evidence unearthed in Germany...
Near Bamberg in Franconia is a smallish cave with a hollow in front of it. In that hollow, in ancient times, a wicked duke cornered three virgin princesses and, when they resisted him, cut off their heads. Every October since then, says Bamberger legend, the three determined virgins gallop out of the cave by the light of the harvest moon. Headless and dressed in transparent robes, they charge around the woods on three white horses...
Beckoning Mouse. The cave is accordingly called the Cave of the Virgins' Hollow. It has traditionally been shunned by most, but not by old Farmer Johannes Engert, who figured that the princesses may have stored treasure there. He defied their ghosts and dug in the cave. One night, while Engert was digging by candlelight, a red mouse came out of a hole, sat down on its haunches and beckoned to him. He told the neighbors about this unnerving event and thereafter they left him alone in his nocturnal diggings...
...kingdom of Lydia (whose most famous ruler was a man named Croesus) first coined money, and Greeks fought Trojans over Helen of Troy (though prosaic modern historians insist that they really fought for control of the Dardanelles). Near one city alone-Izmir, the ancient Smyrna-are mosaics from the cave where sightless Homer strummed his lyre, cliff statues of the earth goddess Cybele, and a wall built by Alexander the Great...
...going to beat Rocky Marciano to become heavyweight champion of the world. "I'm more muscular than Marciano, and I expect to move faster," he said. "I figure I can cut him up so that the referee will have to stop it!"* Rocky Marciano, 29, more of a cave than a college type, had less to say in advance. When the bell rang for the start of their 15-round experiment at the Polo Grounds last week, Rocky rushed out, swinging his fists like stone cudgels, and put a simple idea into practice, i.e., smash away at Roland until...