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...mayor led the party down a circular stone stairway to the crypt of the castle chapel. By flashlight the men saw two rows of granite columns dividing the vaulted 12-ft. ceiling into three naves. Before the granite altar at the end of the 27-ft. crypt lay a pile of stones...
...Minh, the goateed scholar and activist who is President of Communist North Viet Nam, last week smooched in comradely fashion with Polish Communist Chief Wladyslaw Gomulka, this week continued his buss ride through the satellites, reared back and thrust his deep-pile chops at Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito. Then, to prove there was Marxism beneath the mush, he fired off a blast at "imperialist America and its puppets, who are continuing to arm themselves in an attempt to dominate the world." Next target for Ho's communal cuddling: Albania's Enver Hoxha...
Alfred bought coal and ore mines in Germany and Spain, built power, gas and water plants and his own fleet of ships. Above the smoke and soot of the Ruhrgebiet, overlooking his busy factories, he built Villa Hiigel, a monstrous, boxlike pile made of stone and steel because Alfred feared fire. There he entertained the royalty and dignitaries who streamed to Essen to pay tribute to his genius. When he died in 1887, the Kaiser sent a special deputy, and messages of condolence poured in from all over the world...
...Husseinite Beys of Tunis became in later years little more than abject puppets of French colonial rule. With personal prerogatives rivaling those of true oriental potentates and on a half-million-dollar-a-year allowance (almost ten times what France pays its own President), the Beys had only to pile up their wealth and stay out of trouble. Since dynastic law provided that each Bey should be succeeded by the eldest male relative on his father's side, most had reached a state of pleasantly senile complaisance by the time they reached the throne...
Along the streets more bodies were piling up. Drunken riders lost control, pitched off on their heads and lay still. Outside Angels Camp a girl riding behind her husband was killed when he slammed into a gasoline tanker. Two hoodlum outriders headed toward the fair grounds, the A.M.A. territory. They charged a formation of six A.M.A. riders just topping a rise in the road. All eight crunched together in a pile of twisted metal and spinning wheels. When the wheels slowed, two of the eight were dying. Carried to an ambulance with his foot sheared off, A.M.A.'s Richard...