Word: ancients
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ECONOMIC sanctions of the type imposed last week against Rhodesia are a relatively new weapon in the ancient art of international coercion. Not until 1935, when the League of Nations declared an international boycott against Mussolini, was the concept of full-scale economic warfare put to test. Then and since, economic sanctions have proved political duds...
...sawed-off version of Vercingetorix, Caesar's ancient nemesis, Astérix is the creation of René Goscinny, 40 (Albert Uderzo, 39, does the drawing). His secret potion, mixed by the druid Panoramix, is to Astérix what spinach is to Popeye. He and Obélix uppercut their foes with such equivalents of "Socko!" as "Tchad" and "Patchoc!" Every page has a brawl, and the puns fly as fast as the fists, whether Astérix and Obélix are smuggling a barrel of the potion into Britannia to aid an ally besieged...
Krown's forecasts-unparalleled since the Biblical Joseph accurately prophesied seven good and seven bad years for Egypt-stem from his observation of an ancient custom among Israel's nomadic Bedouins. After any October in which there is moderate rainfall, the desert wanderers move out of the Negev into more hospitable land. "Early rain," they explain confidently, "means a dry year...
Bedouin Folklore. To check the ancient folklore, Krown examined local rainfall records. They had only been kept since 1924, but since then, at least, Bedouins had been right. Moderate rainfall in October was almost always followed by an exceptionally dry winter. Dry Octobers generally preceded three-month periods of above-normal rainfall. "I felt that if we could understand the weather circulation in October," he says, "it could possibly tell us what was going to happen...
...cannot sue a public school district. Hurt during a required high school wrestling class, Terry Lee Smith filed a $35,000 damage suit against his Ray town, Mo., school district. By barring the suit, the Missouri Supreme Court affirmed the doctrine of "sovereign immunity," which is rooted in the ancient adage that "the king can do no wrong." Thus, no American Government or its political subdivisions, including school districts, can be sued without its specific consent. Though some do consent, most states insist that school immunity is necessary to prevent public funds from being diverted to private plaintiffs. Urged...