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...predictable that the "Treasures of Tutankhamen," a traveling exhibition of precious objects discovered in a tomb in 1922, would cause a furor at the Field Museum of Natural History. In Washington, D.C., where the show began its run of six U.S. cities last December, the wait to get in averaged five hours. On its first day in Chicago, 2,000 people were in line when the doors opened. The first Tut fanciers had arrived...
Susan Foss is only one of thousands of seriously ill people who are participating in an extraordinary program of outpatient hospital care. Begun in 1960 to cut rising costs of New Zealand's largely free, womb-to-tomb national health system, the scheme has kept expenses at about 500 a day for each extramural patient in the greater Auckland area (pop. 800,000), compared with the average $41 daily price tag for in-patient care. It has also saved at least 3,000 additional hospital beds, while at the same time making life more bearable for tens of thousands...
...mitzvah, Mary gazes with the women from behind the mechitzah (barrier) at the Nazareth synagogue. There are also some deft touches from everyday life. One of the soldiers gripes, "I can hardly wait to get back to Rome," as he ambles down the cemetery path to discover an empty tomb that will change the course of history. Richard N. Ostling...
...meeting of international Communist leaders in Spain? Nothing like it had happened in 40 years, and it was almost enough to bring that old anti-Communist crusader, Francisco Franco, dead scarcely a year, right back from his tomb in the Valley of the Fallen...
Huge empty frames line the building's 4th floor hall and masterpieces wrapped in plastic are stuffed in almost every spare room. The corridors of a Fogg storage room are filled with old display cases, statuettes and a few works under consideration for acquisition, such as a Chinese stone tomb figure of the 10th century. Behind a huge, sliding metal door, guarded only by a small padlock, plastic-clothed Buddhas and glazed Chinese tomb figures occupy dusty shelves, a Japanese scroll with a painted vision of countless heavenly hordes hangs on one of the walls, and a shiny brass head...