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...January 1949, an LST flying the red-and-blue ensign of Nationalist China pulled away from the dock at Nanking and headed down the muddy Yangtze, its tank deck crammed with a priceless cargo. Another heavily laden LST had already made its way safely across the East China Sea to Formosa. Later, a freighter was to complete the epic task of saving from Communist hands the art treasures assembled over the centuries, and collected in the Peking Palace Museum and Nanking's Central Museum...
...actors, some Sioux from South Dakota, how to put up tepees, pack a travois (a primitive sledge), and shoot bows and arrows. When Producer Milan Herzog made his series on medieval life, nothing would do but to shoot it in real French chateaux that had been especially decorated with priceless furniture and tapestries from museums...
...scrubby, rolling country northwest of Rome lies rich archaeological pay dirt, but the worthwhile pockets are as hard to hit as producing oil wells. Some of the underground tombs left by the Etruscans who lived there 2,500 years, ago still contain priceless art treasures, while others, robbed centuries ago, are not worth the trouble and expense. When a modern, authorized graverobber (archaeologist) finds a tomb and digs laboriously into it, he often finds only dust and broken crockery. Last week Amateur Archaeologist Carlo Lerici was proving that modern scientific techniques can take the gamble and much of the secret...
MANUEL PRADO, 67, candidate of his own personalist party and a former (1939-45) President, is the archetype of the Peruvian oligarch, wealthy from banking, real estate and industry. Sitting amidst the priceless antiques in his mansion, he says: "I am the man of the people...
...Thornton, British-born Benjamin Henry Latrobe (responsible for the handsome east fagade), and Boston's Charles Bulfinch (chief restorer of the Capitol after the British burned it in 1814). Said Architect Rich: "A reproduction is worth only the price it took to build it. An original is priceless...