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...they unearthed a cache of hundreds of small clay figures. Callously the highway crew smashed the figures into the roadbed, but their foreman told the story at the sake house that night. Soon a delegate of National Museum curators rushed to the spot-too late. Lost: another priceless trove of Haniwa sculpture, the funerary pottery in the form of warriors, horses, shrine maidens, even ducks, monkeys and chickens found in burial mounds of the 3rd to 7th centuries...
...19th century French Pointillist Painter Georges Seurat, including four of his seven major canvases, lent by U.S. and European collectors (TIME, Jan. 20). Only one closed fire door stood between the acrid smoke and scorching heat and the pick of the museum's permanent collection, richest and choicest trove of modern masterpieces in the world...
...fact, Voltaire soon started a passionate affair with his niece, Mme. Denis, 32. He kept it so secret that it was only found out a few years ago. when a trove of his letters to her came to light. Both Voltaire and Emilie were getting temporarily bored with one another, but, as Voltaire explained, it was necessary for the sake of appearances to maintain one of France's most famous love affairs-otherwise, what would people say? And so the two philosophers remained close-until Emilie became pregnant, at the age of 42 (much too old, by the standards...
...loud because it's the song of Missouri. It's as bad as The Star-Spangled Banner so far as music is concerned." A bright-eyed 72 when the film was shot. Truman favored posterity with his sunburst smile and flashes of his shrewdness, wisdom and trove of history. The camera and microphone etched the old cockiness and the saber-toothed campaigning technique as well as it caught the homespun simplicity and twinkling humor. Thanks partly to skilled editing, but mostly to its star's sheer self-characterization as an uncommon common man, the show...
...French had gone to considerable trouble and expense to make the celebration possible. Sahara oil has become one of France's main reasons for refusing to yield war-torn Algeria. Politicians have held it up as treasure trove that would restore France to riches and greatness. The Hassi Messaoud field alone has estimated reserves of at least 200 million metric tons-ten times France's present annual consumption. With two years to wait for a full-sized 24-in. pipeline from the Sahara to the Mediterranean coast, the French strung the baby pipeline across 93 miles of desert...