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...found most of its greatest treasures, such as the tomb of Count Folch of Cardona's family with its 16th century bas-relief (opposite), had been mutilated. A superb object of contemplation even now, the relief symbolizes life after death through the story of Jonah and the whale. Jonah is shown spewed up from the whale's belly onto the life-strewn shore...
...Dead Sea, customers will float in glass-bottom boats and look down upon Sodom and Gomorrah. A dark journey through the thoracic cavity of Jonah's whale will end up in a wild slide down the monster's tongue. Camels will clunk along through Egypt's Valley of the Kings, taking clients to the pyramids. Donkeys will bear the weight of multitudes from Nazareth to Jerusalem...
...they moved Gary into a still bigger gym. By this time, there was fretful muttering that first place might have to go to Mike Berkowitz, 17, whose toss of only 53 ft. 10¼ in. had hit nothing but the floor. But the weary Bronx boy-whale finally got off a freeflight toss that went 60 ft. 7½ in. to win his just reward. This spring he will have all outdoors for room in his assault on the national scholastic record of 69 ft. 3 in., held by Southern California's Dallas Long...
...whale in question was no Moby Dick (a monstrous albino sperm whale) but a finback measuring 44 ft. 2 in. and weighing an estimated 50 tons. It was no Moby Dick by temperament either: far from eluding pursuit, it seemed to seek out Dr. White. No fewer than five times it ran itself aground at Provincetown, virtually on Dr. White's Boston doorstep (though he was in Washington). Four times the U.S. Coast Guard hitched a 3-in. hawser to it and towed it out to sea, only to have it snap the line and return with a derisive...
...less. But by the time the Woods Hole scientists had it wired, the Provincetown specimen was sick at heart, its pulse racing at an uncetacean 27-still only one-third the rate of the excited Dr. Kanwisher (see cut). An hour before Dr. White got to its beachside, the whale died and was rigged for towing...