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On exhibit is King Tut’s life-sized solid gold mummy mask.
CHICAGO, II.: King Tutankhamen might have died more than 3,300 years ago, but this ancient Egyptian pharaoh is proving he’s still the king—especially when it comes to selling rickets to museums. The Egyptian government has loaned more than 50 objects taken from King Tut’s tomb to a traveling exhibit. Currently at the Field Museum in Chicago, the exhibit is scheduled to visit four more museum around the United States over the next two years. The objects that are on loan include a solid gold mask, gold lamps, gem-encrusted furniture, and priceless jewelry.
Visitors are waiting in line eight hours and more just to buy tickets, and the museums expect the event to be a sell-out. Is it the whispers about the fearful “Mummy’s Curse,” the glitter of jewels and gold, or the wrapped body of the pharaoh himself that is drawing such huge crowds? “It’s probably a combination of all these things,” says Riccardo Cather, the director of the Detroit Museum of Ancient Art. “We expect that more than eight million people will view the exhibit before it goes back to Egypt.”
Stores are cashing in on Tut-mania with Tut clothing and jewelry, choreographers are creating Tut dance steps, and stylists are giving the truly fashionable Tut haircuts!
NEWS
Inside Out?
PARIS, France: Don’t look now, but it would appear that someone has turned the new art museum in Paris inside out. Usually hidden inside buildings, the elevators, the escalators, and all the utility pipes are visible from the outside of the newly opened Pompidou Centre, which was designed by architects Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano.
The Human Fly
NEW YORK, NY: George Willig, also known as “the spider-man” and “the human fly,” recently climbed the South Tower of the Word Trade Center, one of the tallest buildings in the world, using only homemade climbing equipment. The Port Authority, which runs the building, has fined Willig $1.10—or one cent for each of the building’s 110 floors.
President Gives Pardon
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Once of President Jimmy Carter’s first official acts was to pardon Vietnam War draft evaders. The law will no longer pursue these men who refused to fight in the war, which was protested by hundreds of thousands of citizens—including students, celebrities old many Vietnam veterans.
MUST-SEE SEAFOOD
NOVA SCOTIA, Canada: The heaviest crustacean ever recorded was caugh off the coast of this province earlier this year. This lobster weighed nearly 45 pounds!
Snow Way!
MIAMI, FL: Earlier this year, snow fell for the first time in history in this usually sunny southern city.
SCIENCE
SMOKIN’!
ECUADOR: One and a half miles beneath the surface of the Pacific Ocean, the scientists aboard Alvin, a deep-sea submersible, have just discovered what they are calling “black smokers.” These geothermal vents on the ocean floor spew up water temperatures of over 600 degrees Fahrenheit. The never-before-seen giant clams and tube worms spotted thriving around the black smokers were equally amazing.
BEE GEES IN SPACE?
CAPE CANAVERAL., FL: Two Voyager space probes recently blasted off from Earth. Both spacecraft will travel the solar system, photographing the planets and their moons, before heading for interstellar space. The probes each carry a gold-plated record with sounds and images from Earth, including music, sounds from nature, and greetings in 55 languages—all for aliens who find the records to listen to.
ENTERTAINMENT
DISCO FEVER STRIKES!
NEW YORK, NY: Wearing a white polyester suit as he dances to the Bee Gees sound-track on a lighted disco floor, John Travolta has the country—and the world copying his hot dance moves. In the just-released movie Saturday Night Fever. Travolta plays a working-class kid from Brooklyn, New York, who wants to change his life by winning a disco dance contest.
Fever Fun Facts
John Travolta is so cool as the character Tony Manero, People in Brazil are already using the word maneiro, based on the character’s name, When they want to say “Cool.”
While making the film in New York City, cameras had to stop several times because fans of Travolta kept mobbing him.
After Travolta’s movie dad tousles his hair, Travolta quips, “Just watch the hair!” This line wasn’t in the script. Travolta made it up on the spot!
What a Star!
Saturday Night Fever isn’t the only movie to create a big buzz at the box office. Director George Lucas has just released a science fiction epic like you’ve never seen It’s called Star Wars. A simple futuristic farm boy must battle the evil Darrh Vader in a struggle Over the fate of the galaxy. And the special effects are truly out of this world!
ROOTING FOR ROOTS
Over 130 million viewers tuned in over eight nights to watch the TV miniseries Roots. based on the book by Alex Haley. The book tells the story of Kunta Kinte, an African man who was stolen from his homeland and enslaved in 1750, and traces his decendants to the present day.
PONG PLUS
A Japanese company called Nintendo has recently started making something called home video gamed. Only time will tell if this home video games business will really take off.
SPORTS
BOXER AT BOX OFFICE
Heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali’s 1975 autobiography, The Greatest: My Own Story, has been turned into a movie, also called The Greatest, starring the champ as himself. Critics are already calling the film the best movie about Ali yet.
WAY TO GO, JAYS!
TORONTO, Canada: The Toronto Blue Jays just won their first ever baseball game. The Jays team, which has become part of the Eastern Division of the American League, defeated the Chicago White Sox with a score of 9–5.
CRIME
Prison Break
PETROS, TN: Along with six other convincts, James Earl Ray, who was serving a 99-year sentence for killing Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., on April 4, 1968, escaped from the Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary. Ray was recaptured just three days later and returned to prison, where more years were added to his sentence.
PRINT IT
QUANTICO, VA: The FBI has created the Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS). This first fully computerized fingerprinting system will change crime fighting forever. Now, a fingerprint can be “scanned” into the computer and compared to thousands of other fingerprints from all over the country.
OBITUARIES
ALL HAIL THE KING
MEMPHIS, TN: Elvis Presley “The King of Rock and Roll” died recently at Graceland, his beloved home. His first smash hit was “Heartbreak Hotel” in 1956. Presley was 42 years old.
GOODBYE OL’ CHAP
VEVEY, Switzerland: Star of early silent films. Charlie Chaplin, also known as “The Tramp,” just passed away at the age of 88.
ASK DR. NOITALL
Dear Dr. Noitall, My friends at the disco roller rise always laugh at me whenever I say we should “Do the Hot Dog!” Why do they make me feel like such a wiener? Sincerely Going to the Dogs
Dear Going to the Dogs,
What a disco disaster! Clearly, you’re mishearing the words of the hottest dance songs. It’s “Do the Hustle!”—not “Do the Hot Dog!”
FASHION
FASHION FEVER!
What are all the groovy people wearing these days?
Disco Kings, grab your comb and get ready to boogie in your…
white polyester suit
open-necked shirt
flared pants
Dancing Queens, fluff up that Farrah Fawcett hair and step right out in your…
“gypsy” dre
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platform shoes
heavy-duty eye makeup
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Welcome to the crime-solving world of the famous Fitzmorgan and Moorie detective families! Each of the books in the Crime Through Time series is hosted by a young sleuth who must work against all odds to unravel a compelling mystery. Every few pages, you can take a break from the suspense and learn about real-life investigative techniques so that you, too, can become a detective!
In Betrayed!, code expert Zeke Moorie and his twin brother, R.T., are on the road with the Teens for Tut show when the Curse of the Mummy strikes! Zeke investigates a series of mysterious “accidents” and traces them back to King Tut’s priceless hidden treasure. But with so many suspects, whom can he trust?
