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...credit for a bucket after Columbia was called for goaltending. Then Cox sunk a technical foul shot called on the irate Lion bench; that was the closest the hoopsters ever came. Shane Cotner, Columbia's leading scorer with 17 points, dropped a jumper from the vicinity of Grant's Tomb to make...
...rest of the trip was almost wholly ceremonial. After the obligatory stop in Paris at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Carter did an abbreviated replay of last January's Pennsylvania Avenue walkathon. He strolled several blocks down the Champs-Elysees with President Giscard, even worrying his Secret Service protectors by striding into curbside crowds. The next day he helicoptered to Normandy and walked along Omaha Beach-site of some of D-day's heaviest fighting-and laid a wreath at the American military cemetery where 9,386 casualties of that epic assault are buried...
Next day, when Rosalynn called on Catholic Primate Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski, a symbol of resistance to Communism, Polish-born Brzezinski did the translating. The President meantime laid a wreath at the Tomb of Poland's Unknown Soldier, as more than 500 people broke through police lines, shouting "Carter! Car-ter!" and "Niech zyje [long life]!" It was one of the few occasions when he had firsthand contact with ordinary Poles, many of whom regard him as a symbol of freedom because of his support for human rights. Later, when he placed flowers at the Nike (Greek for victory) monument...
King Tut was an exception to the rule. He did take it with him. All of it. When the tomb was unsealed in 1922 after about 3,000 years, it disgorged a funerary trove unrivaled in history or the imagination: golden chairs and chests, pearly alabaster statuary and polychromatic bursts of gold, lapis lazuli, carnelian, jasper and obsidian jewelry: some of the most beautiful body ornaments ever designed. And, of course, there was also the famous quartzite sarcophagus with its nesting of golden inner coffins that protected the mummified remains of the frail king who died about 1325 B.C., before...
With its 100 full-color plates, Tutankhamun: His Tomb and Its Treasures by I.E.S. Edwards, with photographs by Harry Burton and Lee Boltin (Metropolitan Museum of Art/Knopf; 256 pages; $35), is the finest popular book on the subject. It depicts objects that were not included in the Metropolitan Museum-Egyptian government exhibition now touring several U.S. cities, as well as black-and-white photos from the 1922-28 excavation under Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon. These old pictures reflect the excitement of the unsealing when Tutankhamun's treasures lay in disarray, as if at some pharaonic garage sale...