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...provide "dove festivals" in every little town. There are entertainments,*free dances, trapshooting contests, and the various across-the-border delights of Mexicali, including a "Valencia" pigeon shoot, in which a thrower hurls a live bird into the air while the hunter, as though skeet-shooting, draws a quick bead and fires; the bird wins if it can make it out of a marked circle...
...Despise the enemy strategically." 'wrote Mao Tse-tung in his handbook for revolutionaries, "but take him seriously tactically." Last week, drawing a bead on his enemy in the Kremlin. Mao did both...
...amethyst bead, a gem, and a beautiful gold coin of the Byzantine emperor Theodosius II (408-450 A.D.)--found hidden under a stone weight in the collonade on the opposite side of the street --hint that the "Jewellers' Row" of Sardis was nearby...
David Brinkley's Journal (NBC, 10:30-11 p.m.). Deadeye Dave draws a bead on credit buying in the U.S. and TV commercials abroad...
...expedition found its first Lydian gold when it followed up the lead of modern graverobbers. A tomb of a Lydian lady had been illicitly opened during the winter; the archaeologists completed the excavation by sifting every bit of earth. Out of the dirt came a half-inch gold bead, delicately adorned with tiny gold globules, an agate pendant on gold wire, and a tiny silver figurine of a hawk, From broken pottery in the grave, the archaeologists dated the burial to the time of Croesus' father, about...