Word: tutankhamen
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...form Daddy's old cigars and cigar boxes, instead of painting a picture of the most exciting day of the summer vacation. Not that Herndon didn't put in his time dreaming up far-out schemes to hold his student's attention. He had his class pretend to be Tutankhamen's favorite embalmer, and also write an account. But Herndon is among the first to see that kids find such gimmicks just as odious as the "busy work" of former days...
Numerous passengers narrowly escaped a fall off the platform as they stepped back to appraise a statue of King Tutankhamen. Dramatized by artfully concealed spotlights and projectors were copies of treasures from four of the Louvre's main sections: French Medieval, Egyptian, Ancient Oriental and Greco-Roman. It was a sight to glad den any ordinary rider's eye, and even more pleased was the man behind the-innovation. He is André Malraux, Minister of Culture, and his efforts to re furbish the famed museum itself have been nicely complemented by the un derground mini-Louvre...
Paris has Pharaonic fever-all because of 45 objects from the tomb of Egypt's boy king, Tutankhamen (circa 1358 B.C.), which recently began a four-month stay at the Petit Palais. The event is hardly news: King Tut's tomb was discovered in 1922. But ever since the exhibition opened, Parisians waiting to get in have jammed the Avenue Churchill with serpentine lines five bodies thick...
UNITED ARAB REPUBLIC. Gold amulets and toe stalls found on mummies fill the small museum, but the most beautiful Egyptian treasure is a tiny (15.6 in.) gold coffin inlaid with lapis lazuli and carnelian that once contained the entrails of King Tutankhamen. A snack bar serves gawalfa juice, lamb kabob and Egyptian coffee...
...Continent, gained control of the Suez Canal for Britain, supported oilfields in the Caucasus and the Sahara, carved diamond mines in the African veld. Seldom unimaginative in the use of their money, they paid for the expedition that exhumed the mummy of Egypt's long-lost King Tutankhamen, have supported countless hungering artists and endowed many hospitals. To be a Rothschild has usually meant the possession not only of money but of the ability to enjoy it fully; this has resulted in a family trait of diversity. From the fruitful Rothschild family tree, heavy with shrewd financiers, have come...