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...stones carved with Greek or Latin inscriptions (Hebrew was apparently reserved for religious rites). Reads one: "Here lies Pe-gaianos, the scribe and lover of the Law." Both catacombs are relatively well preserved, "thanks to the Vatican," says Rabbi Toaff. And thanks to the Jewish custom of not burying precious objects with the dead. Knowing that fact, vandals of the Middle Ages paid less attention to Jewish tombs than to those of wealthy pagans and Christians...
Tight as a Tick. Arriving in London aboard Air Force One with an entourage that included more than 50 Secret Service agents, Carter was grandly welcomed by Prime Minister James Callaghan "on behalf of the whole Continent." The President responded warmly by emphasizing "the special and very precious relationship" between the U.S. and Britain. He dramatized those ties the next day when he visited Newcastle -upon-Tyne, ancestral home of George Washington...
...consume. His staff analyzed operations through his first six weeks and tried to improve things. But the study of the second six weeks showed only a small drop in the work load. Unscheduled consultations and pop-in appointments were taking up as much as 15% of the precious presidential day. Carter, it appeared, was the one who was being forced to adjust. He added four more regular weekly meetings to his schedule. He ordered his wake-up calls at 6 a.m. (instead of 6:30) to expand his hours for reading. An aide found some schedules from previous Administrations...
...predictable that the "Treasures of Tutankhamen," a traveling exhibition of precious objects discovered in a tomb in 1922, would cause a furor at the Field Museum of Natural History. In Washington, D.C., where the show began its run of six U.S. cities last December, the wait to get in averaged five hours. On its first day in Chicago, 2,000 people were in line when the doors opened. The first Tut fanciers had arrived...
...intensity is talk faster or louder or both. Landiss fails to realize that in many scenes a well-placed whisper can be more effective than an ear-shattering, rapid-fire sequence of unintelligible lines. To make matters worse, Landiss's emphatic little "umphs" run over some of the most precious and meaningful lines in the entire play...