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During his long reign, Herod went up to Jericho to escape the damp, chilly winters of Jerusalem. Across the Jordan at Shuneh, King Abdullah still has a winter palace. But Professor Pritchard's discoveries suggest that not even modern royalty lives in comparable luxury...
...Feeling with my hands, after a long time I found two boards. They were damp, but they were whole, and they became my bed. They were about three feet long. I was able at first to get little sleep because rats kept scurrying over me. I have always been a friend of small animals, but the thought of rats kept me from sleeping, so I passed unforgettable moments of intimate union with the crucifix, which I conjured up before my mind. My own had been removed at the prison gates...
...mountain whistle-stop of Balvano, 60 miles southwest of Naples, special train 8017 stopped for water. Then it struggled off into the rainy night-two locomotives tugging 45 freight cars jammed with some 700 passengers. In a damp, narrow, two-mile-long tunnel, train 8017 stopped again...
...perpetrators of the stunt, a Lowell and a Leverett House man thoughtfully left a note in the tower explaining how to remove the green paint with a damp...
...damp-eyed notion about the basketball scandal was that the players who dumped games for fixers' gold were just poor little lambs led astray by evil gamblers. Last week in Manhattan, the police dredged up enough new muck to drown the idea. The latest batch of basketball crooks, it appeared, had been just as eager to doublecross each other over the payoff money as to rig games to fit gambling odds...