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Modern Jericho is a grubby Jordanian town, 17 miles northeast of Jerusalem, built among the heaped remains of many earlier Jerichos. Archaeologists burrow into the ruins with insatiable delight, and last week Kathleen Kenyon, director of the British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem, was completing the excavation of Jericho's first city wall. She believes it was built at least 3,500 years before Joshua and the children of Israel came trumpeting out of the wilderness...
...character of Jericho's site. A copious spring of fresh water (Elisha's fountain in the Bible) gushes out of the hillside and makes possible the irrigation of a fertile, subtropical plain beside the Dead Sea. The people of the first Jericho must have developed irrigation and built their prosperity upon it. This settlement may have been the first walled town in the world...
...natural roadway exposed to the comings and goings of fierce invaders. Above the remains of the first city many others lie in layers, and they were inhabited by a long series of different cultures. Most of them came out of the desert wilderness. They attacked Jerich, destroyed it, and built it up again...
...Germans' key mistakes? Why were the British so short on fighter aircraft when war began? What lessons can the U.S., as yet untested in air defense, learn from Britain's ordeal? Primed with facts and background, the students kept verbal exchanges short and to the point, built up enough discussion to keep them arguing and learning long after class...
PRIEST RAPIDS power project, first test of Eisenhower's "partnership" policy, cleared its last big hurdle when the Washington state legislature approved long-term sale of its surplus power to private utilities. The dam will be built by the Grant County Public Utility Districts and financed by a bond issue. The $361 million, 1,000,000 kw. Columbia River project will be one of the largest in the U.S. Scheduled completion date: summer...