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...that month. The team located a wall of a small palace room and sank a shaft into its west corner. Matthiae peered down-and saw the most significant library of the ancient world ever found. "My first impression," he says, "was that I was looking at a sea of clay tablets." Most were in piles on the floor where they had crashed down as the city was sacked in 2250 B.C. Ironically, the fire of the Akkadian conquerers ensured that the tablets would survive the passage of centuries, baking them to a stonelike hardness...
...flow, the News and the parent Chicago Tribune Co. decided to seek a new readership among New York commuters and affluent Manhattan residents. They launched Tonight as a sophisticated answer to Rupert Murdoch's sensation-mongering New York Post, which had the afternoon market all to itself. Clay Felker, who had founded New York magazine, was brought in as editor, and scores of new writers, editors and graphics artists were recruited...
...left do. Whatever else it may have been, surely this was not their day. Ken Livingstone, radical leftist leader of the Greater London Council, spurned his invitation to the wedding and spent the day in an empty office building doing "paperwork." Up in Derbyshire, in the town of Clay Cross, residents resisted the plan of the left-dominated town council to hold a "republican day" on the 29th and instead festooned their buildings with red, white and blue bunting and covered the windows in the town center with Union Jacks. Local Leftist Leader Cliff Fox had previously gone on record...
...years of digging into the ancient riverbed, Webb and his students sifted through more than 100 tons of clay, working thousands of hours in the sun. They also encountered other problems, like protecting the site from the curious and vandals. To drive them off, recalls Love, he would occasionally fire his bird gun. Says he: "I got the reputation for a while as a crazy farmer...
Since bursting on the scene at 16, Evert Lloyd, now 26, has won five U.S. Open championships, three Wimbledons and, by any measure, dominated the sport. On clay, her preferred surface, she has had winning streaks of 125 and 64 matches. At various times in her career, she has been adored as a teen-age wonder, reviled as an unbeatable superstar and written off as a burnt-out case. Through it all, she has borne herself with grace and played impeccably. For the few moments that she stood on Centre Court, the championship salver held high overhead, Wimbledon was able...