Archeologists, proud plunderers of time, last week retrieved from the debris of centuries a pair of treasures from ancient Greece:
¶ Digging near the cucumber-and tomato-growing village of Vraona on the east coast of Attica, Dr. John Papadimitriou, director of antiquities in Greece's Ministry of Education, uncovered 15 wooden vases carved in geometrical designsthe first such find in history. Knowing that fresh air would decompose the wood, which had been preserved in fertile mud since the 8th or 6th century B.C., the archeologist rushed them 23 miles to Athens for a thorough preservative bath.
¶ Starting from Troy in 1932, Professor ....
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