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...Middle Eastern tall tales of buried treasure, are skeptical of the troves' existence-especially since the quantity is so huge. But this is not likely to keep scholars from speculating as to what an otherworldly sect of ascetics like the Essenes might be doing with such a hoard. Nor is it likely to keep treasure seekers from getting out picks and shovels and starting...
...Enthusiast. Twelve is an age of enthusiasm. Twelve rushes headlong into debates without really knowing what he is going to say; he may be so anxious to join a certain activity that he may knock things over on the way. Unlike Eleven, who tended to hoard his money, Twelve is sometimes such a spendthrift that he is often flat broke. As one mother put it, "He can't stand prosperity." He is far more concerned about his appearance but only up to a point. A girl might spend hours primping in front of a mirror...
...MOVIES, Hollywood's richest untapped hoard for TV, are up for rent or sale. Estimates on the price of the 3,000 pre-1948 movies (including 800 silent films and 1,100 shorts) run as high as $110 million v. the $21 million paid by TV for Warner's backlog...
...Moneymaker. The son of a back-country Swiss doctor, Ditisheim became a Basel banker specializing in international finance. He made his first killing in 1931 arranging a $100 million debt payment by Russia to Germany. Six years later he helped Nationalist China use its silver hoard to float a $10 million war loan. He has always enjoyed spending money as much as making it. Coming to the U.S. in 1941 "to retire," he first lived in California, then bought a house in Tarrytown, N.Y., played polo, water-skied, flew small planes. After his wife persuaded him to stop flying...
...chart drawn by a Boston cartographer rests this conclusion: ". . . I came through with a whale boat being ordered bye Government to look after Pirate Ship Whido Bellame Commandr. . . cast away 26 of April 1717 where I buried One Hundred and Two Men Drowned." An occasional doubloon from Bellame's hoard is still washed up on the sands...