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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jubilees, Abraham's father, Terah, made small clay images which Abraham as a boy peddled in the street. Author Hill gives in detail an imaginary account of a trip by the boy Abraham to the great ziggurat of Ur, to present to the priests one of his best doves as a sacrifice to the city's patron deity, Nannar, the moon...
...disease spread to doctors, nurses and corpsmen that it is caused by a virus. But they could never catch the critter. And though its effects partly resemble those of some of the Coxsackie viruses, it does not respond to any of the tests for that group. The best the doctors can do is to call it "Ardmore disease," and hope that some clues will turn...
Stay of Execution. Few weeks pass in which the Journal (slogan: "Spokesman of the Services since 1863") does not flail away at brasshatted bungling. Best-informed and most influential military publication in the U.S., it is studied closely from Capitol Hill to the White House (where 34-year Subscriber Eisenhower's copy* comes every Friday through the mail), from far-flung foreign bases to Washington's wire-service bureaus, which cull frequent stories from the Journal and label them "authoritative." Because the Journal has high-echelon readership (56% of its subscribers rank above Army captain) and high standards...
...speaks. For nearly a century it has kept a cool head while raising its circulation. Editor LeRoy Whitman, 55, onetime aviation reporter and assistant city editor of the Washington Post, says: "It has never been a question of steering the middle course. The question is: 'What's best for the national defense...
Only a pathological optimist would have wagered a wooden nickel on U.S. chances to bring home the Davis Cup. The best men U.S. Captain Bill Talbert could muster for the challenge round against Australia were young (22) Barry MacKay, U.S. intercollegiate champion, and Old (34) Master Vic Seixas, who left his best tennis on the center court at Forest Hills back in 1954. Aussie Captain Harry Hopman made the most of a bountiful supply of stars by calling on 22-year-old Mai Anderson, proud owner of the U.S. championship, and Ashley Cooper, another youngster (21) with years of experience...