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...supposed to replace it with a new one that he made, but he never made the new one." From beneath another carver's hut, a man emerges, offering to sell Time a skull for 12,000 kina (about $3,000). He stops the conversation when an elder arrives and insists that no such artifact is for sale...
...getting it right, a BLOHARD elder chipped in: ?Too easy.? He was right...
...more than a decade and Governor of his state for two terms before he went to Washington. Ohio's Salmon P. Chase, too, had been both Senator and Governor, and had played a central role in the formation of the Republican Party. Edward Bates was a widely respected elder statesman from Missouri, a former Congressman whose opinions on national matters were still widely sought. All three men, knowing they were better educated, more experienced and more qualified than Lincoln, were stunned when he received the Republican nomination and went on to win the election...
...cousins, who were born in the town of Tiberias on the Sea of Galilee, have wanted to make pictures since they were teenagers. Golan, the elder partner, devoted much of his time to the movies, watching his screen idols, Gary Cooper, Humphrey Bogart and Charlie Chaplin. He spent the '50s working in the theater, and though he became Israel's highest-paid director, he now regards the time as wasted; it kept him from his true love, the movies...
...Johnson Sr.'s oft-expressed intentions. She notes that in 1944 he established trust funds for his children that, if left untouched, would be valued at $110 million each. Despite nibbling at the principal, even the poorest of the Johnson offspring is still worth at least $23 million. The elder Johnson had informed them in a long succession of previous wills that he would not leave them anything more. One reason, says Barbara, is that the old man was offended by their penchant for scandal. For example, there was J. Seward Jr.'s messy 1965 divorce, before which his wife...