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...error), had a rather childlike innocence. The blue bronze hands may have been used to decorate some sort of handle; whatever their secret, they remain one artisan's lasting tribute to feminine grace. Of all the collections in the Taranto region, the richest was found in the tomb of a girl who died in Canosa. Among the objects was a jewel case on the cover of which was a silver disk showing a soft-fleshed Nereid...
...statues were from a family tomb located near the town of Tuscania. One day last May, a farmer, wandering over the hills outside Tuscania, noticed a hole on top of one of the hills revealing a tomb that was unknown until some robbers broke into it. The robbers had evidently left disappointed: there was no loose gold or small art objects that could be sold to tourists. The farmer told the police, who notified authorities in Rome, who in turn notified the Villa Giulia. Next day two archaeologists climbed the hill, squeezed through the narrow hole that the robbers...
Moloch whose breast is a cannibal dynamo! Moloch whose ear is a smoking tomb!. . . Moloch whose name is the Mind...
Louis Joxe has plump, ruddy cheeks, a large nose, silver hair and silver-rimmed spectacles; he looks, cracked French Novelist Jules Roy, "like a Roman consul, or maybe a cardinal." De Gaulle has praised him as "a model of conscience, the tomb of discretion," but he is also noted for humor and informality. In 1960, he was assigned to escort Nikita Khrushchev on his tour of France, became one of the few contenders to top Khrushchev in a proverb-spouting contest. The old adage (quoted by Dromio of Syracuse in Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors) that stopped Nikita...
...Nevertheless, Roca managed to hold the party apparatus together in Havana, rose to power again with Castro. He led the Cuban delegation to last October's 22nd Communist Party Congress in Moscow, at a review got the place of honor next to Nikita Khrushchev atop Lenin's tomb...