Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Israelis seemed to have no doubt at all. Eighteen Israeli government agencies have just started work on an ambitious program to raise the standard of living to that of surrounding Israeli farm settlements. Israeli engineers are busy paving dusty streets, repairing broken-down harbor jetties, and surveying the ancient towns of Khan Yunis, Rafa and Deir el Balah for their first municipal water, electricity and drainage systems. Trains are hauling in supplies from Tel Aviv 40 miles away; mail is arriving marked "Gaza via Israel." Work is expected to start soon on bringing water from the Yarkon-Negev pipeline...
...months since the last meeting of the Supreme Soviet, the Kremlin's ancient crenelated brick walls have been shaken by momentous events, and the 1,300 delegates assembling this week to do what they are told could only guess whether they would be greeted with a whiff of reassurance, a burst of recriminations or a snuffing of careers...
According to Anthropologist David Cole, who is photographing the carvings, modern Indians of the Northwest have no traditions about the ancient people who made the rock carvings. The carvings themselves cannot be dated by any known method, but carbon-14 tests of an organic material from a nearby mound show that the region was inhabited 9,000 years ago. Presumably the rock carvers depended on the Columbia salmon, as later Indians did, but where they came from and what happened to them no one knows. The mystery may be solved by study of the carvings- if they are saved...
Across the Pond. The peacock in its prime is shown by Author Bedford with the brilliance of an artist who can paint both a huge panorama and an Audubon closeup. Julius von Felden, feckless son of an ancient baronial house of Baden, has come to Berlin to marry Melanie. daughter of the Jewish House of Merz-a plutocratic, rock-solid family that lives in a welter of steam heat, massive drapes, and meals so continuous and gigantic that every room contains a deftly hidden mousetrap...
...Entreves has strong feelings about national characteristics and international interdependences. England, he believes, is to be praised for its preservation of ancient traditions and institutions. Continental Europe has lost the "old way," as a result mainly of the French Revolution and its consequences. The Fascists tried to restore tradition in Italy but failed, because, once broken, the chain of custom cannot be repaired. For example, d'Entreves illustrates, you could not wear a gown at Harvard today, because that tradition has been broken and lost. England has, however, carefully preserved her customs and culture, and is to be praised...