Word: slabs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sliding Panel. At last Dr. Ghoneim found a granite slab, blocking the corridor and apparently untouched through the ages. Pushing into the chamber behind it, he came on what all Egyptologists dream of finding: an undamaged and apparently unopened sarcophagus. It is 8 ft. long, made of alabaster richly worked with gold and closed at one end by a sliding alabaster panel, through which the mummy must have been inserted. Around it were the portals of many other chambers or passages cut long ago in the rock. They may lead to the tombs of members of a Pharaoh...
...cracks. Seybold ordered crews to strip off topsoil for a better view of the fissures and to start a road to the hilltop for operations to come. Probable next step: test borings to map the crevices exactly. In the end, it may be necessary to remove the threatening slab. This week two representatives of the Morrison-Knudsen construction company, world's greatest earth mover (TIME. May 3), flew down to have a look at Contractor's Hill...
...long wavy hair, and his skin was a loud purple. Within 48 hours he got a grim hint of the deadliest fact of a young elephant's life, a tiger in attack. Clawed and trumpeting, his auntie bolted, but his torn and bleeding mother sheltered him like a slab of concrete till the "oozies" came...
That was not all. Led by a guide provided by Rio Grande's Mayor Adalberto Cuevas, the young archeologists tramped through a jungle full of screaming parrots to a steep slope called Cerro del Sapo (Toad Hill). Overlooking the blue Pacific was a second slab with two Picasso-like figures carved on it. Locally called Los Reyes (The Kings), the stone is still revered as a miracle-working idol. The people of the vicinity make pilgrimages to it to pray for rain, and the carvings show traces of wax from their votive candles. Near it is another carved stone...
...aluminum outside walls), architecture has taken a back seat. To conform to zoning restrictions, most of the buildings rise in a series of recessed blocks, like Babylonian ziggurats and great wedding cakes. A few, like the U.N.'s stone and glass sandwich and Lever House's glass slab, have broken the pattern. But in midtown Manhattan, the wedding cake leads the field...