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Crawling through tunnels less than two feet high, three architects of the expedition made the first modern survey of the underground passages and the marble chamber, concealed deeply within the 200-foot high mound...
...Wickwar of Harvard took the first pictures of the royal burial chamber. The underground structures were discovered in 1853 by Spiegelthal, the German consul at Smyrna. Since then the tunnels leading to them have become clogged with earth and a dangerous fall of rubble has completely covered one chamber and spilled into the other. The one still accessible is built with astonishing precision out of marble blocks fitted together in razor-blade joins. Its huge ceiling blocks weigh several tons
...anonymity," he quickly turned to a much broader subject-Susskind. "I would like very much to go into politics." he said. President? "No Jewish person can be President of the United States. A Catholic just barely made it." Senator? Yes. "I'd like to go into that solemn chamber, and make some sense...
Student unions across the U.S. can hardly get along these days without big parking garages, rifle ranges, theaters, ballrooms, beauty and barber shops. Last year 240,000 visitors jammed the University of Minnesota's massive center to do everything from making mosaics to hearing lunchtime chamber music by the Minneapolis Symphony. Bowlers at Ohio State's union play 200,000 games a year; its cafeterias serve 800,000 meals. The University of California's six-level center at Berkeley is a $6.7 million crazy quilt that wags call "Jack Tar East" after a garish San Francisco hotel...
...practice, it can sound like straight samba music with an occasional solo twitter or two thrown in for jazz flavor, or like the meditative, moody farther reaches of chamber jazz. But when it is tastefully done, it has great appeal, with the long, sinewy lines of improvising jazzmen pinned dramatically against richly filigreed percussion backgrounds...