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Truculent. Blunt, taciturn Chess Master Reshevsky had outraged his Cuban hosts by his point-blank refusal to join the other players in a Friday visit to the tomb of Cuban World Champion José Capablanca. Reshevsky later explained that he could not make the trip on Friday, since his Jewish religion forbids public travel after sundown. But he also demanded that the player's day off should be Friday, not Sunday. Furthermore, Reshevsky refused, up to the final day, to agree to leave the winner's trophy in Cuba. Originally donated by Argentina, the cup had been renamed...
...half a century, Reisner lived in Cairo, Egypt, scouring the Near East and working at the foot of the Great Pyramids of Giza. In Ethiopia, he excavated the graves and remains of 67 Sudanese kings and queens. At the Giza Pyramids, he found the tomb of a queen who had died around 3,000 B.C., and invaluable works of art from the Fourth Dynasty of Egypt...
Last week, Fatemi went to a Moslem cemetery outside Teheran to address a nationalist gathering at the tomb of Mohammed Massoud, an Iranian newspaperman killed by terrorists in 1948. Fatemi had just reached the climax, declaring: "What is life worth, compared with such high objectives?" when a shaven-headed 15-year-old boy in the audience reached inside his coat and drew out a U.S.-made .45. With both hands, he fired a bullet into Fatemi's belly, only three yards away...
...Roman Catholic gentry. Most of these manors had secret cubicles - "priests' holes" - where priests could hide if the house was searched. Gerard describes the end of one nerve-racking search: "Like Lazarus, who was buried four days, I came forth from what indeed would have been my tomb, if the search had continued a little longer...
...mural-sized Buffets representing the Flagellation, Crucifixion and Resurrection of Christ. Each was spare as an Egyptian frieze, ominous as a nightmare. Haggard men in black swimming trunks and bony women in black dresses posed stiffly and grimly against dirty white skies. The resurrected Christ hung desperate above his tomb, his winding sheet napping from his sides like bat wings. "I defy any man," wrote one enthusiastic critic, "not to feel moved almost to sickness before these works...