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...Friday night, as the weekend was beginning, the chief teller-standing in a cage behind a series of locked and guarded doors in the vault area two floors beneath ground level-had counted the money. It was resting on cart T-12, and the bundles of cash added up to $4 million. He wheeled the cart through another heavy door into the main vault. At the end of work on Tuesday, after the bank had reopened, the chief teller counted the money again. This time the tally was $3 million...
...Pole Vault: This requires a great deal of agility with the pole, or in this case, umbrella. The idea is to get from point A to point B without getting wet. Since most people are unable to sidestep raindrops, this necessitates holding an umbrella over your head. Easier said than done. Take, for example, the Plympton Street sidewalks by Adams House, where sign posts are ingeniously situated close enough to the building preventing an open umbrella from passing, let alone two umbrellas traveling in opposite directions. Thus deft wrist movements and hurdles over a few parked cars come into play...
...officials have no objection to turning majority ownership of their Indian subsidiary over to Indians. But they insist that Coke must retain firm control of the quality of drink produced and, above all, the syrup-making secrets. The original Coke formula, so goes company gossip, is kept in a vault in a Georgia bank and is known to no more than ten people in the world. The formula contains an ingredient called 7X, which no one has managed to duplicate. The Indian government's view is that the 1973 law obliges all foreign-owned companies-European as well...
...Appia Pignatelli, off the Appian Way south of the city. A burial place for rich Roman Jews, the catacomb has a small mosaic-paved courtyard aboveground, leading downward to a main passageway six feet wide, branching off into narrower tunnels. One leads to a pair of burial vaults covered with frescoes, their bright blues, reds, greens, yellows and whites still preserved. One wall depicts religious themes including, in the center, an open tabernacle showing the sacred Torah, flanked by two menorahs. The other walls, however, are decorated with such pagan symbols as peacocks, doves and sea horses. On the ceiling...
Geoff Stiles was the sole Harvard competitor to rack up points in Saturday's events, placing a hairs-breadth third in the pole vault behind Bill Hartley of Rhode Island and Brad Turley of Maryland. All three had a top score of 15-8, but some of Stiles' earlier misses hurt...