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...copy of one worn by Edward the Confessor in 1042 and was made for Charles II after Cromwell destroyed the original. The Imperial State Crown, which Elizabeth will wear as she returns to the palace, was made for Queen Victoria in 1838. It contains 3,095 gems, including the priceless Black Prince's Ruby worn by Henry V at Agincourt...
...stages. After each new encroachment on their rights, the Argentines accept the situation rather than force a showdown which, they fear, would cost them even more of their rights. Recently vandals, protected by Perón's police, burned Buenos Aires' famed old Jockey Club and destroyed priceless art treasures. Some of the club members demanded that the club close down its race track in protest. Cooler heads argued that this might prompt the government to nationalize horse racing. As a result, the board of directors adopted a "realistic" position, trooped dutifully off to assure the Minister...
...temple priests in North China had evidently tired of the goddess on their wall, ordered her plastered over with a layer of mud and rice husks, then commissioned artists to paint another scene on top. Experts could give no estimate of its value beyond saying that it was a priceless example of 10th century Chinese wall painting and one of the few available for study by Western scholars. Said Professor Yukio Yashiro, after a look at Missouri's 1,000-year-old goddess: "This is one of the greatest discoveries of our time in the field of oriental painting...
...intermediate between male and eunuch . . ." From childhood she is "fated . . . to be the passive prey of man," to awake in him "an unknown being whom he recognizes with pride as himself." What man dreads above all, Author de Beauvoir believes, is woman's ceasing to be his most priceless "idea" and becoming very much like himself. For this reason, he never pries into the recesses of her mind: it might give her the notion that she has a mind. On the other hand, there is no tribute he will not pay to what he considers her finest qualities...
...English teacher in a church mission school at Allahabad, India. After a year of that, he spent a decade in State Department service at home & abroad. Then he followed his brother into Sullivan & Cromwell. During World War II, he was the OSS chief in Switzerland, where he pieced together priceless bits of intelligence collected from Allied spies, neutral travelers and anti-Hitler Germans. The information he obtained about the Nazi V-weapon program led to the bombing of the research center and set the program back at least six critical months. After the war, he wrote...