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Until last week Sisowath's body remained in the urn. Then priests removed it, washed and dressed it in royal robes, hung over its heart the medal of the order of The Million Elephants and the White Parasol, placed the body in a more impressive jar...
...very size and power were enough to scare many U.S. businessmen-to say nothing of Japanese businessmen-last week. In combination with similar British and Dutch weapons, it might lay the Japanese economy low in six months (see col. 2). But it also had a kick that would jar 200,000 silk workers in the U.S. (see below...
...some 750,000 young U.S. citizens, the question was absurd. These recently turned 21-year-olds had registered for the draft July 1, had their numbers drawn last week in Washington. Government bigwigs, 50 draftee and volunteer noncoms, World War I veterans, reached successively into the same glass jar used for the World War I draft and the first draft of War II, extracted 800 opaque, fireproof capsules. Inside each was a slip with a number corresponding to the order in which the 21-year-olds had registered (thousands in different draft districts had the same numbers). First number drawn...
...collection includes, besides the Paracas polychrome jar in the shape of a human face, two early Nazca bags in rich reds and greens, one with a rythmic pattern of liamas, and a splendidly designed polychrome vessel with a painting of lima bean shoots on it. Another vessel is ornamented with a serpent pattern. A large female figures from Chancay shows the sophistication of Peruvian coastal art about 1200 A.D. Four smaller figurines showing costume types complete the collection. Also on exhibit is another object of great rarity at present on loan in the Museum. It is the figure...
Magistrate Pinto, sighing, last week dismissed the charge, shooed out the massive Methuselah. "Go along now. Try to behave from now on." The iron man breathed heavily, took a reef in his galluses, clumped home to his dogs and cats and the 21-ft. snake in the dusty jar...