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Good Impression. As a result, the Kennedy Administration swallowed hard and warmly greeted the tough, austere soldier. Smiling broadly, Vice President Lyndon Johnson pumped General Park's hand on his arrival at the National Airport. Next morning, Park dutifully fulfilled the ritual of laying a wreath on the Tomb of the Unknowns, then talked with State Secretary Dean Rusk and Fowler Hamilton, head of the Agency for International Development. General Park outlined his five-year $2.4-billion plan for South Korea, indicated hopefully that he would like up to half of that sum to come from the U.S. Although...
...chimes in the Spassky tower atop a Kremlin gate struck 10 as Nikita Khrushchev, his party leaders and foreign guests filed up the steps to the top of the tomb. Last of all came 80-year-old Kliment Voroshilov, who had publicly apologized for his "antiparty" misdeeds and apparently assumed all was forgiven. An armed guard barred his way. Voroshilov made a second attempt to join his old comrades through a side door of the Mausoleum and was ejected by a plainclothesman. He then stood pathetically beside a white-smocked woman selling ice cream and watched somberly as Defense Minister...
...Landry show, the big rose is called The Tomb of the Fighters, but Magritte's titles always come after the picture is done. "When there is a rose, and one is sensitive to it, one makes it as big as I did so that the rose appears to fill the room," he explains. The title, which Magritte took from a book, slowly comes to seem appropriate: like the rose, the fighters are something "grandiose," filling the tomb with their struggles...
...expedition found its first Lydian gold when it followed up the lead of modern graverobbers. A tomb of a Lydian lady had been illicitly opened during the winter; the archaeologists completed the excavation by sifting every bit of earth. Out of the dirt came a half-inch gold bead, delicately adorned with tiny gold globules, an agate pendant on gold wire, and a tiny silver figurine of a hawk, From broken pottery in the grave, the archaeologists dated the burial to the time of Croesus' father, about...
...Caretaker (by Harold Pinter) ups curtain on a West London room that looks like the Pharaoh's tomb of a junkman. There are bales of yellowed newspapers, moldy tennis rackets, scattered bureau drawers, a sink bowl, and a disconnected gas stove graced with a gilt plaster Buddha. There is a lawn mower and a blowtorch. On a rope strung from the leaky roof hangs a paint bucket into which drops of water plunk like the tick-tock of doom. Into this dusty, chilly tomb, English Playwright Pinter deposits three mummies of modern man, who proceed to strip off each...