Word: network
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...discovered another buried mastaba. When he uncovered its southern burial shaft, he found it filled with thousands of mummified ibises. The bodies of the long-legged birds were wrapped in cloth, stuffed into pottery jars, and piled up like bricks. Digging deeper in the ground, Emery found an amazing network of ancient tunnels, most of them piled to their roofs with ibis mummies. Since the ibis was an Egyptian symbol of wisdom, they indicated to Emery that somewhere near by had stood the long-lost shrine of Imhotep, the Egyptian father of medicine, who was probably the first intellectual...
...professor, however, is bored with the embalmed birds. They are, after all, of Ptolemaic age, distressingly young for Egypt. But the network of tunnels apparently covers more than a square mile, and Emery intends to explore them thoroughly, no matter how many mummies he must disturb. His goal is the hidden tomb of history's first intellectual, and the mummy of the great Imhotep himself...
...four years of independence, Nigeria has been held up as a model for African democracy. Despite its 250 tribes and tongues, Africa's most populous nation (officially 55.6 million) seemed to stand in true and loyal brotherhood, linked by an expanding economy and a growing network of roads and power lines. Foreign capital was rolling in at close to $90 million a year, modern office buildings and factories were springing up from shantytowns, the literacy rate had been raised 50%, and four new universities were opened. Prime Minister Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa encouraged a free press, an active Parliament...
Wine & Stiff Collars. A major beneficiary of all these rises was Macy's of Manhattan, the anchor and source of Macy's network of stores (many of them under different names, such as Lasalle & Koch of Toledo, Davison's of Atlanta). Macy's 21-story store in Herald Square, which takes up a city block and has 21 acres of selling space, is a display case for more than 400,000 items of merchandise, each one of which is kept in at least a week's supply...
Belden Daniels, one of the directors of the Commonwealth Service Corps, spoke to the chairman of the PBH committees and asked their help in establishing "a network of PBH's all over the Commonwealth...