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...Because the pyramids held no gold, the Spaniards were uninterested. Innmodern times, droves of tourists journeyed from Mexico City to climb the Pyramids of the Sun and the Moon. But, though archaeologists long suspected that there was much more to Teotihuacán (pronounced Tay-o-tee-wah-kan), few spades disturbed the city's deep covering of cactus-grown earth...
...Boston, the All-American city, has come up with another: Park Street Music, complete with Hammond organ and brass that goes "wah-wah" and "boop-boop." It slurps out of newly-installed speakers on both levels of the Park Street MTA station, and one cannot escape it. It's bad enough that the subway looks dirty, smells foul, and feels clammy. Must it sound rotten...
Flashing a familiar grin. Junior addressed audiences as "my friends," made a reminiscent pitch for Jack: ''He hates wah." Roosevelt also insinuated that Humphrey had dodged the draft in World War II (actually, Humphrey was involuntarily classified 4-F because of physical disabilities). Kennedy won the primary-and then Roosevelt publicly apologized to Humphrey...
Flying Potatoes. "Wah-ah, wah-ah," shrieked the police-type klaxons that Weidner had thoughtfully installed in advance. The Communist guards obediently raised the first of three barriers. But what was a bus doing on emergency duty? Suddenly the shooting began-too late. Wagner, at 40 m.p.h., was already crashing through the second barrier 100 yards ahead, then the third, only 20 yards away...
...father," says K. C. Li Jr., 40. chairman of New York s Wah Chang (Great Development) Corp., "wanted to make Chinese activity in the U.S. mean more than the laundry and the restaurant." Li Sr., a British-educated mining engineer who died early this year, built Wah Chang (1960 sales: $35 million) into a major free-world producer of tungsten. Now K. C. Jr., a Swarthmore graduate who flew with General Chennault's Fourteenth Air Force, is out to enhance his company's reputation by intensifying research into atom-age metals. The new emphasis has already produced...