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...disappeared; there was Harry Truman now, in the august company of Jefferson, Jackson, Wilson and F.D.R. Behind the speaker's stand loomed a new staircase. "When our people make an entrance," said one official, "they'll make an entrance-they won't sneak up a side stairway...
...Questions. With that he had bolted off toward a stairway and had vanished. Who was he? A disappointed lover? An enemy of the girl's family? It was soon obvious that he was neither. Eileen had no enemies. Neither did her family. The young marine was her childhood sweetheart and she had never had another beau. The cops guessed that the killer might never even have seen her before -he had called her simply a "female...
Below the landing were another 13 steps. Then the stairway ended at a solid wall. Behind it was another wall with a stone box set in it, and in the box were a piece of ceramic work, a big pearl, a collection of shells and several pieces of jade. This religious bric-a-brac encouraged Archaeologist Ruz. It hinted that something of importance to long-dead Mayan priests was hidden in the heart of the pyramid...
Archaeologists believe that the sanctuary is older than the pyramid. It lies 82 ft. below the Temple of Inscriptions, and the massive altar blocks could not have been carried down the narrow stairway. The hieroglyphs on the altar are dates. They have not yet been deciphered, but the experts believe that the altar is at least 1,000 years...
...read Uncle Tom's Cabin and believe it represents the United States today." Indian Statesman Sir Benegal Rau spoke of her as a U.S. phenomenon comparable to Niagara Falls. In Bombay an admiring Indian textile worker spread ice yards of silk in her path up a tenement district stairway. She went right on being Mrs. Roosevelt. She "performed namas-kar" repeatedly, once giving some wealthy hosts the jim jams by using it to salute the footmen at dinner. She crept into native mud huts, worked an ancient spinning wheel in New Delhi, accepted a handmade revolver from Khyber Pass...