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...Cabot House, the big dead fish apparently has lots of significance. Cabot House gets in same from the family of Thomas D. Cabot '19, and according to Cabot Master's Assistant Susan Livingston, the House cost of arms boasts three dead fish, a variation on the Cabot family seal...
...since. At the U.N., the dashing diplomat is best remembered for his caustic oratory against the Soviet Union. In 1960, during the debate over the downing of an American U-2 intelligence plane over the Soviet Union, Lodge displayed in the Security Council a wooden plaque bearing the seal of the U.S. The plaque, which had hung for 15 years in the U.S. embassy in Moscow, turned out to be bugged. Later that year Lodge became Richard Nixon's running mate on the presidential ticket that lost to Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson. Lodge was a sound campaigner, though he often...
...result, pressure in the tanks was mounting. The worker tried to manually operate the mechanisms that were supposed to relieve the pressure, but it had already gone too high. He alerted his supervisor, and four colleagues donned gas masks and hurried to the scene. They too were unable to seal the tank; by then, all systems had failed...
...hostage in Lebanon: U.S. Diplomat William Buckley, first secretary of the embassy's political section; Cable News Network Correspondent Jeremy Levin; and Presbyterian Minister Benjamin Weir. Last week a fourth American disappeared: Peter Kilburn, a librarian at Beirut's American University. A retaliatory raid in Lebanon might seal their fate...
...delicate double-handled Greek cup, similar to those made between 1400 and 1350 B.C., and the copper ingots, with their characteristic handles, which resemble one drawn on an Egyptian tomb at Thebes dating from 1350 B.C. The nationality of the vessel is suggested by the discovery of a miniature seal, no larger than a button, with markings similar to those used by the Greek merchants who dominated the ancient Mediterranean trade routes. Bass speculates that the ill-starred voyage had picked up tin in Syria and sailed west to acquire copper in Cyprus before heading for either Greece or Turkey...