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...Eighth Day. Eight miles from Dr. Yadin's Cave of Letters in the Wilderness of Judah, the second archaeological team, headed by grey-haired Polish Emigré Pessah Bar-Adon, 53, dug through six feet of debris in another cave. On the eighth day, behind a smooth stone that blocked a wall niche, it discovered a collection of artifacts that Bar-Adon quietly described as "probably archaeologically sensational": 432 copper, bronze, ivory and stone decorated objects that seem to be mace heads, scepters, crowns, powder horns, tools and weapons. Ranging in size from...
...When Adon Taft goes to church, someone is forever mistaking him for the minister. The error is understandable because Taft looks and acts like one. He is tall, deacon-grave, bespectacled, softspoken; above his generous brow, from which the hair is steadily receding, there sometimes seems to hover a nimbus of reflected light. He neither smokes nor drinks, goes to church 200 times a year, is married to a church organist, and reads the Scriptures to his two young daughters. Taft's calling is not spiritual, except at one remove. Adon Taft, 34, is a working newsman...
...page to at least two, also carries a Taft column on synagogues every Friday, another column, "A Stranger Goes to Church," on Mondays, and regularly uses Taft stories in other weekday editions. Says Herald Managing Editor George Beebe: "We didn't realize what a religion beat meant until Adon took the job. Our church pages are as bright and lively as any in the paper...
...every day he was in jail, including some fond embroidery. "His empty chair in the news room," said one story, with the picture of a chair, "carries the faded old motto he pasted on its back a couple of years ago." The chair actually belonged to Herald Religion Editor Adon Taft, and the motto - "Do unto Others" - was pasted on years ago by a mischievous copy...
Religion Editor Adon Taft of the Miami Herald (circ. 225,169) is an earnest Baptist who goes to church twice every Sunday-once to worship, and once to report on a new congregation in his column, "A Stranger in Church." Last week, obeying his instincts as both believer and newsman, Taft was working to expose the tent-show evangelism of a faith healer...