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...years of repressive treatment, the boy became withdrawn and watchful. At 16, he developed tuberculosis. At 21, ignored by his mother and surrounded by doctors who tried to make him eat 64 live snails as a pick-me-up, L'Aiglon died. "Between my cradle and my tomb," he said not long before the end, "there is a great null." He had to be buried with a hat on because souvenir hunters had snipped off all his hair...
...land in Kiev; Czech Party Boss Antonin Novotny had to wait 16 hours in Leningrad for the Moscow fog to lift. Once they arrived, the delegates wandered the city like conventioners anywhere, clicking pictures of the Spassky Gate, shopping at GUM, or lining up to peek at Lenin, whose tomb was banked in flowers and bedecked with signs reading "Glory to Communism." Others belted vodka in their freshly painted hotel rooms and watched the proceedings on television, or listened to highlights of the Congress broadcast in 54 languages, including Zulu, Nepalese and Quechua-a language spoken by Indians in Ecuador...
...with the spout fashioned to hold a wick. Two jagged lines on the outside marked the places where a handle, the most fragile part of a ceramic piece, had been fastened. By studying the shapes of the lamp and comparing it with another lamp taken from a local tomb, archeologists were able to date the wreck--at about...
...much larger than Harvard's. Arranged by year and then by country, it is one of the finest private collections of postwar jackets in the world. Kleist says he would gladly show his collection to interested students, but nobody has ever wanted to inspect it in its dingy tomb in the basement of Lamont...
...hilarity when British characters natter away with upper-class accents on low-class subjects. Not so. This story, about a group of lecherous London husbands who organize the scholarly sounding Metropolitan Egyptological Society as a cover for some amorous prowling, is about as funny as King Tut's tomb. And just as lively...