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...Knights of the Round Table), performs like a student fresh out of a cram session, stunned but effective. He even manages to sputter a little Arabic, or words to that effect-"umptu niagda brruschk!"-when the occasion requires. Comes time for the concluding festivities in the Pharaoh's crypt, Taylor seems so tired of it all that he hardly bothers to respond to Actress Parker's subterranean snuggling-a fact which at least spares the moviegoer a sort of petting party in a coffin...
Died. Augustus Van Home Stuyvesant Jr., 83, Manhattan millionaire, sole surviving direct descendant of Peter Stuyvesant (1592-1672), last Dutch governor of New Amsterdam; in his 20-odd-room Manhattan town house. Four days after his death, Stuyvesant was buried in the family crypt at St. Mark's Church in-the-Bouwerie, where 85 other Stuyvesants and Stuyvesant connections are entombed. Then the vault's massive bronze door (inscribed "Peter Stuyvesant-His Vault") was closed forever...
...killing individual Trotskyites and killing a nation are not the same. For eight years, the people of Soviet Germany crouched in the crypt that Soviet might and Walter Ulbricht's Communist regime built for them, unable to sit in comfort or stand in freedom. Then they rose up, and Walter Ulbricht's masterpiece began to show cracks...
...corpse in the crypt had surely once been some exalted leader of Palenque civilization. The hieroglyphics on the stone sarcophagus alone, estimated Dr. Ruz, had been 25 years in the carving. The original owners of the six skeletons outside had been sacrificed to guard the tomb...
...Century's corpse outleant, His crypt the cloudy canopy