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...those who care, Guinness also reports that the longest sword that can be swallowed after a heavy meal measures 26 in. The most extensive case of coin swallowing was reported by Sedgefield General Hospital, County Durham, England, where a man was relieved of 366 halfpennies, 26 sixpences. 17 threepences, 11 pennies and four shillings (424 coins valued at about...
...legs and a mane. Other bowls are lively with prancing unicorns, bulls, rams, eagles, fish, a warrior in chain mail holding two leopards by their necks. The diggers turned up gold jewelry and gold household and toilet articles (ear cleaners, tweezers, needles), stone maceheads, terra-cotta figurines, a marble sword hilt inlaid with gold and lapis lazuli. Said one ragged workman as he watched the stream of treasure: "How rich and careless we were to cast our gold into the earth like a seed. It grew nothing and left us poor...
Whether Tocsin overestimates the danger of war is a matter of personal judgment. Professor Hoffmann seems not to find the danger very great. President Kennedy, in his now-famous speech to the U.N. General Assembly, said that "every man, woman and child lives under a nuclear sword of Damocles...
...voice rising, his face turning beet red, Khrushchev declared that none of the Western powers had built a bomb of even 50 megatons. Shouted he: "The 50-and 100-megaton bombs will always hang over their heads like the sword of Damocles...
Surrounded by a robed retinue of 20 that included four sword-and-pistol-toting bodyguards and one of his four current wives (lifetime total: at least two score), Saudi Arabia's King Saud, 59, descended from a chartered TWA jet at Boston's Logan International Airport and turned himself in to the nearby Peter Bent Brigham Hospital. Immediate prospect for Saud: six weeks of treatment for what was reported to be a gastric ulcer...