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Atop one of Jerusalem's olive-tree-cluttered ridges stands one of man's most unusual monuments to the past. Against the skyline, a white-tiled dome swells from a watery moat to contrast with a black basalt wall aflicker with flames. These dramatic structures mark the new home, dedicated last week, for Israel's collection of Dead Sea Scrolls (see opposite...
...shakers and crystal wineglasses into the tops of their stockings or inside their girdles." Flags are particularly coveted: at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, Dawn herself stole a five-ring Olympic banner from the Imperial Palace Grounds, was tackled by pursuing cops as she tried to dive into the palace moat. When police found out who she was, they made her a present of the flag. And how about the poor Japanese traveling salesman who committed the error of parking outside the Aussie dorm-only to discover later that ?400 ($1,120) worth of transistor radios had disappeared from...
...over the years collected some 350 patents for inventions ranging from the prototype of the modern vacuum radio tube, bought by RCA for $500,000 in 1926, to the first radio-guided torpedoes, while pouring his considerable royalties into his Gloucester, Mass., home, a massive Gothic castle complete with moat, drawbridge, and a 10,000-pipe, 100-stop organ (he was no kin to the Hammond organ family); of hepatitis; in Gloucester...
ONCE UPON A MATTRESS (CBS, 8:30-10 p.m.). In this musical-comedy adaptation of The Princess and the Pea, Carol Burnett re-creates her off-Broadway role as a swamp girl who swims the castle moat and is courted by a prince. Richard Rodgers' daughter Mary composed the score...
FESTIVAL OF GAS. Its blue and green color scheme is one of the coolest sights in the industrial area. From the glass-walled room, the diner can look out over a flower-sprinkled moat while enjoying such entrées as compote of squab, tender loin flared in bourbon or baked country...