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...austere chronicles of our folk-culture heritage has itself an ancient and learned history." As proof, he ventures back to Babylonia to unearth an early example: "Who becomes pregnant without conceiving? Who becomes fat without eating?" Answer: Clouds. In ancient Greece, Oedipus solves the riddle of the Sphinx: "What is it that goes on four legs in the morning, two legs at noon and three legs in the evening?" Answer: Man. (First he appears as a crawling baby, then upright in maturity, then in old age with a cane.) The Old Testament yields some difficult puzzles and praises those...
...conform to rules set for it. But strangest of all, don't the House and Senate intelligence committees share information? It seems patently ludicrous that Senator Goldwater should not have known something about the mining if the House knew about it already. And above it all the horrible sphinx, William J. Casey, sits grinning: "I don't have to answer questions I'm not asked...
...most of its 4,500 years, the Great Sphinx stood guard over the pyramids of Giza from behind a 14-ft. limestone beard. Now, centuries after unknown forces gave the enigmatic monument a shave, some Egyptian authorities want to restore the Sphinx to its former hirsute splendor. Their interest is more than cosmetic. Because the neck of the 66-ft-high statue has been badly eroded by centuries of exposure to the elements, even a moderate earth tremor could send the entire 965-ton head rolling off. Says Culture Minister Mohammed Radwan: "The only acceptable way to avoid further deterioration...
...reincorporated into the monument. Fearing that Anglo-Egyptian relations may prove as hard to restore as pharaonic constructions, the Egyptians have hit upon a Solomonic solution: while negotiations continue, a temporary beard made of lightweight material will be installed to determine whether the public, and the Sphinx, can grow accustomed to a new look...
...Chariots of Fire, Lord Irwin in Gandhi, a doge of Venice in NBC's Marco Polo, Albert Speer's father in ABC's Inside the Third Reich, Pope Pius XII in CBS's The Scarlet and the Black, a crooked art dealer in Sphinx, a German scientist in The Formula, and the British censor who prosecuted D.H. Lawrence in Priest of Love...