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...Americans bought 85% of the Etruscan objects in respectable-looking shops. Customs officers, traditionally easygoing with American tourists, let them pass. "Americans could walk out of Italy with the Colosseum," complained one contraband officer. But last month frontier customs guards caught an Austrian carrying a vase dating from the 6th century B.C. He got it, he said casually, from "old Renn-Rain...
WASHINGTON, April 25--The United States 6th Fleet steamed to the eastern Mediterranean today in what officials described as a show of force intended to support the threatened government of Jordan...
...legendary founder is Bodhi-Dharma, "the blue-eyed monk," who came to China from India in the 6th century A.D. Imported to Japan in the 12th century, Zen flourished so mightily that it eventually modified most phases of Japanese life, notably in the elaborate code of conduct called Bushido and in the arts of poetry, spinning, flower-arranging, swordplay, archery, and the famed, highly stylized tea ceremony...
...Gulf of Aqaba dominating passage from the Red Sea to Israel's new port of Elath, belonged to its captors. To prove Israel's historic claims, Ben-Gurion paused in his rolling Hebrew periods and read out in the original Greek the historian Procopius' 6th century description of the island: "There the Hebrews have lived since ancient times and govern themselves...
...Britain and France, if they could disengage themselves from their present activities. This country could at least supply the arms and transportation that may be necessary for a successful operation. In addition, this Government might extend diplomatic recognition to the Gyor Government in Hungary (still extant as of November 6th) if it shows sufficient signs of stability...