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...tonnage figure is conservative. Much more was taken than the clerks recorded. And for centuries, at home as well as abroad, all was destroyed. Until quite recently, Raleigh's "Indian Golde" was still being sold under the counter to Panamanian dentists for tooth fillings. The passage from tomb to melting pot did not really end until, in the 1950s, Colombian and Costa Rican pilferers began to realize that the value of ancient gold on the art market was much greater than even its worth as metal...
...original structure came to be known as the Tombs because its architect used a pharaoh's tomb as his model. The present building, completed in 1941, was designed to hold 932 inmates. In 1970 there were 2,000. Now, with a population of only 530, conditions remain so appalling that the New York board of corrections began hearings last week to decide the gothic jail's fate. The most likely verdict now appears to be to destroy the Tombs. Its passing will not be mourned...
Wing forward Doug Quimby broke Princeton's back with an 80-yard sprint down the sideline, scrum-half Henry Nurenberg buried the Tigers with Harvard's final try, and fullback Gary Bond sealed the tomb with four more points from his two conversion kicks...
Graduate students in Social Psychology yesterday placed flowers on the Tomb of the Unknown Grad Student in protest against the Department of Psychology and Social Relations's decision Tuesday requiring first-year students to take a department-wide survey course...
...tomb was erected by unidentified individuals in the lobby of William James Hall...