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Such a rainbow's-end prospect was offered last week to Britons, who have long suffered from an inadequate health system. Health Minister Aneurin Bevan planked down before Parliament his long-expected National Health Service Bill, which promises care for every man, woman & child from womb to tomb-to start...
Soon Psousennes joined his General, and then the main tomb, too, was sealed. Outside, history marched past; the splendid city of Tanis fell into ruin; sand drifted over the tomb, and hid it. It lay undisturbed by wars and warriors-Assyrians, Macedonians, Roman legions, the cavalry of the Mamelukes, the sweating, roaring British truck drivers of World...
...Betray Me." In 1929 an accomplished grave robber came to Egypt. Professor Pierre Montet of Strasbourg University, well financed by a French subsidy, dug for more than ten years in the salty soil near the ruins of Tanis. At last he found the tomb. In 1940 Pharaoh Psousennes, with all his treasure, was exposed to modern stares...
...secret chamber General Unjebanenjebet slept on. A new war raged in Africa. Professor Montet, his funds cut off by the German invaders, returned to defeated France. When peace came, he hurried back. Sand had drifted again over the tomb, but gangs of chanting laborers soon cleared a suspiciously thick wall. Probing between its limestone blocks, Professor Montet felt an empty space. His workmen lifted the blocks; through the ancient dead air, they saw the gleam of gold...
...from the Tomb. The scientists of the new Astromental Era had remade the Earth so completely that when "F.W." emerged from his coffin (he wore the swallow-tailed coat and cracked patent-leather shoes that he had been buried in), he could not believe that he was in California. The ground was as flat as a pancake. The whole world had become a garden city without political frontiers, war, disease or extremes of climate...