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...President of the republic, I have the honor of presenting your excellency this declaration of the worldly goods which I possess." There were seven items: an apartment in Rio worth $5,000, four parcels of stock worth $9,000, "one Aero-Willys automobile, 1961 model" and "a perpetual tomb in the São João Batista cemetery in Rio de Janeiro." The note was the considered duty of an honest man, and it marked the first time in history that a President of Brazil had ever declared his assets-before, during or after his term of office...
...There, city fathers had restored a 114-year-old former courthouse and designated it the MacArthur Memorial. The walls were inscribed with passages from famed MacArthur speeches. Family and friends watched in silence as the casket was slowly placed in the cool crypt beneath the rotunda. And then the tomb was sealed...
...lady friend of Don Carlos noted last week. Venetians liked Don Carlos for a while, but cooled to him when he began pouring out whiskey "in spoonfuls." And so the splendiferous Spaniard turned to a new hobby: refurbishing a castle near Paris, where he is building a neo-Gothic tomb for his recently deceased...
Peering into the opposite side of the crystal ball, other Kremlinologists interpreted the mission as a thinly veiled slap at Nikita by Rumanian Party Boss Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, an old Stalinist who ostentatiously laid a wreath on Joe's tomb a few years ago. Rumania had already defied Soviet economic planners by building up its own industry rather than humbly serving as raw-material supplier for the rest of Eastern Europe. According to the latest theory, the boys from Bucharest were now parading their ideological independence from the Russians...
Below the thriving city of Solomon's time (961-922 B.C.) lie many earlier cities. While probing in a slightly lower part of the mound, Dr. Pritchard stumbled by accident upon his most spectacular find: a mud-walled tomb with the skeleton of a woman of high station, perhaps a local queen. She lay with rich grave goods still around her-500 beads of carnelian and 75 of gold, silver pins, a silver chain, four ivory boxes, an ivory spoon with a human head carved on it, and many objects of bronze and pottery. She must have died about...