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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...here, many scholars believe, that Abraham was born some 4,000 years ago. The land was inhabited by a non-Semitic people called the Sumerians. They, drained the marshes of the delta and built a highly developed civilization of irrigated fields, pastures and theocratic city states. An 8-to-10-ft. deposit of clay from about 4000 B.C. indicates a possible Sumerian basis for the Biblical story of the Flood, and the Sumerian version has its Noah-a good man named Ziusudra who was instructed by two gods how to build an ark and save himself and his family from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Patriarch | 1/6/1958 | See Source »

...descendant of a Semitic people who inhabited the land before the Sumerians came. Thus he would have learned the story of the Flood, as well as that of the Tower of Babel-which sounds like a description of one of the stepped pyramids called ziggurats atop which the Sumerians built temples...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Patriarch | 1/6/1958 | See Source »

...simple, the 90-h.p. American even comes with a do-it-yourself instruction book to cut repair bills. American Motors' President George Romney says it will compete directly with the $1,795 Studebaker-Packard Scotsman and foreign cars, will have "the lowest advertised delivered price of any automobile built...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: The T-Bird Grows Up | 1/6/1958 | See Source »

...fewer than 100,000 cars a year, helped lift it into third place in 1954 (513,497 sales) with breezy, fun-stressing ads and such catchy slogans as "Better Buy Buick," "Hot? It's a Fireball," and the most famous auto slogan of all: "When better cars are built, Buick will build them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVERTISING: Better Woo Buick | 1/6/1958 | See Source »

Mash Note. In Vonore, Tenn., Moonshiner Bill White, arrested by federal agents after he built a still in his front yard, explained: "There's no use putting the still back in the mountains, because you'd find it anyway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 6, 1958 | 1/6/1958 | See Source »

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