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...village inn, meet a spirited young English compatriot (Peter McEnery). Enter Eli Wallach, as the swarthy Greek villain who knows that Peter knows too much about a jewel theft back in London, and the plot begins to fizz. Peter turns up, with a bullet wound, in an ancient spooky crypt. Hayley skips to the rescue. Showing an appetite for danger that 007 himself might envy, she is bound and gagged in a rat-infested granary, makes a wild leap to freedom on the rotating vanes of a windmill, cracks a rifle butt over a thug's skull, commandeers...
...Norfolk, Va., where his mother was born. There, city fathers had restored a 114-year-old former courthouse and designated it the MacArthur Memorial. The walls were inscribed with passages from famed MacArthur speeches. Family and friends watched in silence as the casket was slowly placed in the cool crypt beneath the rotunda. And then the tomb was sealed...
...from which he had addressed his his toric Vatican Council II. In the next two days, more than 1,000,000 people shuffled by the body to pay their last respects. On Thursday night, the body, inside a triple coffin of walnut, lead and cypress, was placed in the crypt beneath St. Peter's; eventually, in accordance with John's wishes, it will be moved to the Basilica of St. John Lateran, the Pope's cathedral as Bishop of Rome. Then the priests and nuns who had served John in his papal household packed their belongings...
...really "much thinner" and much less hairy-headed than they had depicted him. 10:30 a.m. Delivered, at Arlington Cemetery, a speech extolling Ignace Jan Paderewski, the great Polish pianist and patriot who died in the U.S. in 1941. Occasion: the dedication of a plaque marking Paderewski's crypt. Paderewski was buried at Arlington, said the President, with the understanding that "when Poland would one day be free again, he would be returned to his native country. That day has not yet come, but I believe that in this land of the free, Paderewski rests easily...
...these are not Biddle's favorites, and good as they are, they do not have the impact of the third part of the show. This consists of Biddle's Goyaesque drawings of the mummies buried in the crypt of a Capuchin church south of Messina in Sicily. Once upon a time, the Capuchins were famous for having brought back from the Holy Land sacred earth; and in the 17th century, their cemeteries were where the rich and the mighty were buried. The bodies are there today, preserved by some forgotten process, still wearing velvet britches and silver buckles...