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...before representatives of 600,000 mountain tribesmen. Huge brass gongs sounded out a tribal chant. Tribesmen, some wearing only loincloths, others rigged out in bright robes and peacock feathers placed ceremonial jars of wine from each mountain village before him. Through long, curved bamboo stems, Diem took a ceremonial draught from each jar. Then village elders slipped three large gold bracelets on Diem's arm, spread the head and entrails of two sacrificed water buffaloes before him, and pledged their allegiance to his government...
...Cambridge City council has ordered all the city's draught beer taps cleaned out after reports that some of the taps were spreading dysentery, Councilman Joseph A. DeGuglielmo '29 said yesterday...
...made fine pottery and effective tools out of bone, flint and copper. The copper they smelted from ore out of the same deposits south of the Dead Sea that King Solomon mined many centuries later. They pulverized it with massive stones and roasted it in furnaces under a forced draught from blowpipes...
...DeLong drilling platform looks like an engineer's doodle turned into steel. It is a shallow-draught barge. Running through vertical holes near its sides are eight steel caissons. When the barge is being towed through shallow water, they stick up like lofty smokestacks. At the drilling site they are dropped, poking their ends into the bottom...
...feeling creepy walking past the mummies on lonely mornings." As another man was closing an especially noisy window one night he felt something cold tapping him on the shoulder. Turning around he almost tripped over a loosely-wired skeleton which was shining in the moonlight and shaking in the draught. But what used to frighten the museum caretakers the most was a ferocious-looking Arab who habitually did research in the museum at 5:00 a.m. No man would not quake upon seeing the blue-suited white-turban-clad Arab, standing amidst dummy Anthropology exhibits, suddenly turn about and stare...