Word: ancients
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Human Change. The new director, who spent eight years in Washington as head of the OAS's Technical Cooperation Department, has set Sudene a private investment goal of $55 million for 1965-and he is well on his way. Around Recife, where new skyscrapers jostle ancient slums, Italy's Pirelli plans to build a big, new electric-cable factory, and Willys-Overland do Brasil is busy on the Northeast's first auto-assembly plant. In seven of the states, work is under way on 1,000 miles of new roads that will help nordestinos bring...
...Macedonia, was a city of such culture and opulence that it may have ranked with Athens itself. That possibility was long masked not only by Greek scorn for the Macedonians, but also by the fact that the Romans destroyed Pella in 168 B.C. Gradually covered by layers of dirt, ancient Pella's precise location became unknown...
...modern village of Pella (24 miles northwest of Salonika), a Greek farmer was digging in his basement in 1957 when he stumbled on two limestone Ionic columns that turned out to be part of the spacious courtyard of a nobleman's house in ancient Pella. At what is now confirmed as Pella's site, archaeologists have since uncovered mosaic floors of exceptional beauty and size-testament to the splendor of Pella's patrician life in Alexander's time...
...abortion, and where the mother was condemned to die. Then the execution was stayed long enough to allow the child to be born. The situation progressed very little until the 1940s when a few U.S. courts began allowing plaintiffs to recover for damages suffered before their birth under the ancient canon that where there is a wrong, there must also be a remedy. These scattered rulings, plus the compelling evidence of modern medical research, started the new trend...
...statuary from his period, Psamtik's minister has regained his look of permanence. A closed form in lustrous alabaster, his presence is pounded out of stone with a mallet as if hacked from timelessness by human persistence. The pose may be stiff, but the archaic smile on the ancient Egyptian's lips reflects an implicit belief that he has found a house for his soul and that his eyes gaze toward eternity. Yet without patient scholarship, he would only have added to the historic rubble of mankind...