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Five villagers agreed to do the job. Using a tangan, a crude shovel with a specially curved blade and an extra-long handle, they probed deep into the earth around the mound, extracting core samples and examining the dirt for indicators such as traces of charcoal, which the ancients packed around tombs to ward off humidity. Locating a likely spot, the villagers lighted the fuse on a 110-lb. lump of homemade dynamite and blew a hole in the middle of a wheat field. Having blasted their way to a spot near the top of the tomb, they donned...
...Near Empress Dou's burial mound, raiders use a TANGAN to take soil samples, which indicate the exact location of the 131 ft. by 131 ft. tomb, buried deep underground...
...TANGAN This special shovel, which has a curved blade and steel screw-on handle extensions, can extract soil samples from 115 ft. below the earth's surface...
...will try to continue its dominance of the Ancient Eight next weekend when it takes on longtime-rival Yale. If the Crimson pull it out against the Bulldogs--who enter The Game winless in league play--it will mark the first unblemished league record in team history.Crimson PhotosDavid. S. TangAN OLD-FASHIONED WHUPPIN': (Top) Sophomore CHRIS NOWINSKI downs Penn's BRIAN BONANNO as a mob of Crimson tacklers survey the scene. (Left) Junior JOE MATTSON evades a Quaker defender...
Crackers & Canals. At the thatched village of Tangan Ri, near Seoul, last week, as onlooking Koreans cried "Mansell" (ten thousand years), the first shovelful of earth was turned to launch Bechtel's big project. In two years Bechtel will build three thermoelectric plants in Korea, thus almost double the nation's power capacity to 200,000 kw. Cost: $34 million, the largest FOA contract yet issued in Korea...
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