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...Moral Code. Theodor H. Caster's The Dead Sea Scriptures (Doubleday; $4-Anchor Books; 95?) is the first complete English translation of the scrolls for laymen. Now visiting professor of history of religions at Columbia University and professor of comparative religion at Dropsie College, Gaster prints the virtually complete text of the scrolls, together with a concordance of passages in the scrolls that also appear in the Old and New Testaments. Most informative is the "Manual of Discipline," which sets down the moral code of the Qumran sect, with detailed stipulations: "Everyone is to be judged by the standard...
...hope foreigners will realize, said one Israeli spokesman with an angry gesture toward the steamer lying at anchor in Haifa harbor, "that what Nasser did to the Panaghia today, he can do to British and American ships tomorrow." To the people of Israel at least, the 550-ton Greek freighter was floating proof that Egypt's Nasser, as master of the Suez Canal, could not be counted on to keep his promise not to interfere with the free passage of shipping. The Panaghia itself was not the only vessel to find its way barred as it tried to pass...
Last week the "forgotten ship" Panaghia dropped anchor in the Israeli harbor. "In all my years afloat," said Captain Koutales, "I have never experienced such treatment before...
...three major networks called out their stables of old, reliable stars, and laid on a couple of new ones. CBS's veteran Walter Cronkite. working his familiar anchor spot, gave the most informed, alert and consistently lucid commentary, held up best under the week's strain. His biggest coup: getting Ave Harriman inside the fishbowl to exchange blessings with Estes Kefauver on a split-screen hookup (denounced as "electronic fakery" by rival ABC). CBS's seasoned twosome of Ed Murrow and Eric Severeid was seen only fleetingly, bantering the big picture with the casualness of network executives...
...Tennessee A. & I. State University Club's Mae Faggs, 24, almost ran away with the women's National A.A.U. championships in Philadelphia. She won the 100-meter and 200-meter dashes and ran anchor leg on her club's winning 400-meter relay team. San Francisco's Pamela Kurrell, 17, skimmed the discus 140 ft. 11 in., to break the American record she had set just the day before...