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...enclosed. By a technique refined by Archaeologist Amedeo Maiuri. currently in charge of Pompeii excavations, the presence of the ash cavities is detected by cautiously tapping the ground with blunted pickaxes. When the excavators spot a hollow, they drill several holes through the stratum of ash, pour thinned plaster of Paris into the cavity. After allowing the plaster time to harden, workers can chip away the surrounding ash to uncover a cast of the eruption victim...
...store, they bind and gag the concierge and his wife, roll back the living-room rug and begin cutting through the concrete floor. When the hole is the width of a man's wrist, an umbrella is lowered through it and opened to catch the fragments of plaster as the gap is widened. Once in the store, the alarm is swiftly disconnected, the safe opened with an electric drill, and the loot removed. The entire operation simulates major surgery: there is the same mute reaching for instruments, the same intensity of purpose, the same growing strain as the operation...
Fargo, N. Dak., minutes after Mrs. Garner Halvorson had finished singing "Bless these walls, so firm and stout" in the Plymouth Congregational Church, the plaster fell from the walk and part of the basement ceiling crashed to the floor...
...sculptors and painters moved into the field, drawn by the new and freer techniques, they helped to accelerate the experimental pace. Among the early innovators : Painter John Ferren, who produced colored prints on plaster instead of paper; Boris Margo, who developed a new, easy-to-work print surface of sheet cellophane dissolved in acetone; Adja Junkers, who blew woodcuts up to mural-sized proportions with his 14-ft.-long triptych in which the center panel alone used eight blocks and 56 colors. Sculptor Leon ard Baskin's Man of Peace, 1953 (see cut), displayed at Brooklyn's prizewinners...
...last week donations and sightseers alike were pouring into the newly wealthy temple. But in his diabolical way the goat was still busy. In forgotten temples all over the land, to the consternation of the devout, Buddhists were hacking away hopefully and irreverently at any plaster Buddhas they could find...