Word: ancients
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Silence gives consent." So runs an ancient maxim of common law, and from that maxim flows a widely applied legal principle: the rule of tacit admission. On the theory that an innocent man would loudly deny a serious charge, the rule holds that a suspect silent in the face of an accusation has tacitly admitted the crime. And such silence can later be introduced at his trial as an indicator of guilt...
...list of desired exhibits, the show represents "an ultimate test of the conviction that fine things will always go together." Collecting them became the responsibility of a 15-man international committee of museum officials from eleven countries, who somehow had to persuade governments, museum trustees and individuals to lend ancient, fragile, and often irreplaceable pieces...
Into the Buchenwald barracks comes a group of prisoners from Auschwitz. Among them is an ancient Pole bearing perhaps the most unusual luggage ever brought into the camp-a cardboard suitcase containing a three-year-old boy, orphaned and alone save for his gaunt guardian who has so far kept him from harm. When the Pole is transferred to another compound, the Kapos (trusties) and other prisoners combine forces to hide the child and save him from the packs of Nazi wolves who run the camp. But it is not long before the commandant hears of the "Jew brat...
...researcher from the Peabody Museum has excavated ancient weapons which may mean that man has been in the New World more than 40,000 years...
...country that has made much of the benefits of contemporary science, the familiar practice of performing an autopsy to aid post-mortem investigation seemed an odd cause for crisis. Yet in one of the bitterest religious controversies in years, bearded Hebrew scholars argued over the application of ancient laws to modern medicine...