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...burial tomb of a king, erected in the seventh century before Christ by the Lydians, has been uncovered by the Harvard-Cornell expedition in its continuing studies of the ancient capital of Sardis,' in Turrkey...
...that Russia's armed forces would "protect the fatherland and all countries of the Socialist community against any plots of aggressors." If Chou was impressed, he did not show it. To demonstrate his continued disdain for Khrushchevian wrong-think, he ducked around the back of Lenin's Tomb and paid a reverential visit to Stalin's modest grave outside the Kremlin wall...
...month ago he was anathema: the Yellow Peril, the shameless Pervert of True Marxism-Leninism, the terrible Trotskyite Deviationist and Splitter. Last week, as he stood bundled in a greatcoat and karakul cap atop Lenin's Tomb watching the rockets roll by, Red China's Chou En-lai presumably was still all these things to the fallen Nikita Khrushchev, who was nowhere to be seen, and possibly to many other Russians who have little love for the Chinese. But officially he was the honored guest from the great fraternal Chinese People's Republic, and this just three...
...does not seem real to us to see it restored. It is as if it wished to delude us into thinking nothing had happened. We do not wish to pass judgment on those who were the cause. But we cannot but deplore that civilized man dared make the tomb of St. Benedict the target of pitiless violence...
...predated the picture postcard. Canaletto was a vedutista with vision. Trained in theatrical scene painting, disciplined by Roman academicians, influenced by Dutch artists' oils of classical ruins, he swiftly caught the eye of visiting and resident English milords, who collected and commissioned such far-from-vedute fantasies as Tomb of Lord Sowers (see opposite page), a highlight of North America's first comprehensive Canaletto retrospective, which opened this week in Toronto...