Word: ancients
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Elath has been Israel's main outlet for its growing export trade with Asia and East Africa. More important, it has become the port of entry for nearly 90% of the country's oil supplies. The Strait of Tiran, where coral reefs and the hulk of an ancient sunken ship make passage difficult under the best conditions, is easy for the Egyptians to control. Their announcement that they would turn back only ships bearing "strategic" goods to Israel was ambiguous enough to keep everybody guessing. At least three ships headed for the Jordanian port of Aqaba were boarded...
...berets. When the battle was over, 92 enemy dead were found. To the east, U.S. Marines launched Operation Union City II south of Danang and killed 172 Red soldiers in the first day's fighting, while a South Vietnamese force swept the environs of Hue, the ancient imperial city...
...making man even more familiar with his nearest neighbor in space. From the prying cameras of Surveyor 3, which landed on the moon last April, and Orbiter 4, which last week was circling the moon, scientists were provided with movies, color pictures and a wealth of new insight into ancient lunar secrets...
Presumably aimed at those customers who like to see the lower halves of double bills, Fort Utah never once rises above second-class status. Its covered wagon train predictably forms a circle at the first sign of Injuns, its cast mouths such ancient phrases as "you ornery cuss" and "I ain't seen hide nor hair of you." In a world of permanent revolution, it is reassuring to note that for undiscriminating moviegoers some things never change...
...Board of Syndics, one of the Press's three administrative bodies. The 14-man Board includes Press Director Wilson as Chairman; Ernst Mayr, Director of the Museum of Comparative Zoology; Simon S. Kuznets, George F. Baker Professor of Economics; Crane Brinton '19, McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History; and Konrad E. Bloch, Higgins Professor of Biochemistry. It meets for two hours every month to decide which of the manuscripts that have survived readings by a Press staff member in the field and one or more outside experts--often Harvard professors--should be published...