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...quietly inside the temple itself. They probed the sandstone with diamond drills, measuring its strength. They charted its cracks and flaws. Finally they produced a carefully documented plan to cut the temple into chunks, lift it piecemeal to the top of the cliff and reassemble it-just as other workmen once cut up a European monastery, packed it in crates and shipped it home to be pasted together for a famed collector of antiquities, William Randolph Hearst. The cost will be a modest $36 million, one-third of which has been all but promised by the U.S. Government...
...normally sleepy Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa was astir with feverish activity last week. Crowds of ragged citizens stood gaping as workmen rushed to install huge portraits of prominent Africans across from Haile Selassie's palace. Finishing touches were being put on a spanking new hotel. Mile after mile of 8-ft.-high corrugated iron fence was being put in place along main streets to hide the city's shabby slums...
...center aisle, chatting, shaking hands. A small, bespectacled man, he speaks rapidly in French Canadian patois, his jokes homey and telling. At meeting's end, as party workers pass cardboard ice cream containers for campaign contributions, he says to his audience of stubble-chinned farmers and somber-faced workmen: "Give if you can, but don't be shy if you can't. And if you really need some money, take...
...prejudice against banks and likes the feel of his own cash. Said one South London housewife: "We have grown up counting our pennies and sorting everything out so we can see what we've got left." Another factor not so widely acknowledged is that many canny British workmen never tell their wives what they make, and would not like them to find out by reading the paycheck...
...darkness a long line of workmen, peering over a bank of earth, see their factory burned by the Germans, and as the camera moves in a moving frieze from face to firelit face, the faces slowly in the mind become one face: the image of Neapolis Agonistes, the image of all men who inhabit the dark night of tyranny...