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...room, at least 50 ft. on a side and divided by 16 massive columns. In Ramesses' day the room would have seemed positively cavernous; now it's filled nearly to the top with rubble washed in over the centuries by infrequent flash floods. Anyone who wants to traverse the chamber has to crawl through a tight passage, lighted by a string of dim electric light bulbs, where the dirt has been painstakingly cleared away. "It's like crawling under a bed," says Time's Marlowe, "except that it goes on and on, and the ceiling above your head is studded...
...amended ordinance approved Monday night is the result of several revisions of CUSP's original proposal, submitted in March. The key modifications to the original proposal came from the pro-business Cambridge Chamber of Commerce and the Massachusetts Restaurant Association...
Helena G. Rees, public affairs director of the Chamber of Commerce, said she was pleased by the votes. "We successfully organized the restaurant community to work out a compromise that we feel benefits both smokers and non-smokers," she said...
That prospect dumbfounded Fort McClellan's backers. But they had a strategy. The Calhoun County Chamber of Commerce -- petrified at the impending loss of 10,000 jobs, representing 17% of the region's work force -- hired a Michigan firm to quiz Missourians about their prospective new neighbor. "Missouri said there was no public concern about this, and we decided to take the poll and find out for sure," says chamber official David Sylvester. "We found out that people didn't know it was happening...
...optional" movement. He began publishing pronudist screeds in 1961 and in 1967 opened the Elysium Institute in L.A.'s laid-back Topanga Canyon. Daring in its day, the in-the-raw retreat is now such a community fixture that Lange was named citizen of the year by the local chamber of commerce...