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...standard defense for smuggling is the Elgin Marbles ploy: if Lord Elgin had not "rescued" the Parthenon sculptures from the Turks in Athens, they would probably no longer exist. The British Museum was built on the Empire's plunder. Napoleon had no qualms about ransacking Egypt for the Louvre. Likewise, since the Latin Americans or Italians "cannot look after" their own archaeological wealth, it is the collectors who preserve it by extracting it from their hands...
...Gatto. 18. Joe Don Looney. 19. One point. 20. 12 degrees. 21. Jim Marshall. 22. Jerry West. Oscar Robertson, Elgin Baylor, Bob Petit and Bill Russell, 23. Jerry West. Oscar Robertson, Elgie Baylor, Bill Russell and Dave De Bussehere. Each man named himself to the team. 24. Hot Rod Hundley, West Virginia. Fred Schaus. 25. The New York Knicqs. which selected Bill Bradley and Dave Stallworth, and the San Francisco Warriors which picked Walt Hazard and Rick Berry. 26. Darryl Imhoff. 27. Darryl Imhoff. 28. He competed only in basketball and not the high jump. 29. The Boston Celtics...
...psychic benefits of parental authority. "There is no way the government can supply the 24-hour, seven-day, 52-week care of a good parent," says Virginia's Paulsen. That was certainly the case with Pam, who spent those months tied to her bed at Illinois' Elgin State Hospital. Attorney Murphy won a judgment for her. She is now in a private institution where the state pays $45 a day to undo the psychic damage its agents...
Like many others, the Children's Zoo in Des Moines has had a serious vandalism problem. There is no money to hire a night watchman, and trespassers have broken in to cut off a cougar's ear, steal a trained hawk and release penned deer. Director Robert Elgin finally worked out an ingenious way to police the grounds at no cost: let Becky do it. Becky is a 180-lb. lioness...
...idea is not so sanguinary as it sounds. Becky has been trained as a "wrestling lion": she neither bites nor uses her claws. Her parents were used some years back to protect the deer compound. Becky will likely conduct her nocturnal patrols on a long leash. Elgin admits that she might be more effective if allowed to roam free. But that, he says, would scare the baby elephant...