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...Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said unto them, Get you up this way southward, and go up into the mountain: And see the land, what it is; and the people that dwelleth therein...
...borders of Canaan, Moses sent twelve men headed by Joshua, son of Nun. Last week a scouting party of about the same size left almost the same place near the Sinai border of Israel to spy out the same land, Israel's forbidding Negev desert. Ten were amateur archaeologists and crack rifle shots from Israeli frontier villages. The eleventh and leader was Dr. Nelson Glueck, 59, president of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, an archaeologist-rabbi as lean and as leathery as Joshua. His purpose: to uncover traces of people who inhabited the Negev back to Moses...
...Bakhash '59, of Lowell House and Teheran, Iran, Jonathan F. Beecher '58, of Adams House and Milton, David W. Bernstein '59, of Dunster House and New York City, Peter H. Bodenheimer '59, of Eliot House and Salt Lake City, Utah, Peter P. Brooks '59, of Eliot House and New Canaan, Ct., David O. Carpenter '59 of Winthrop House and Granada, Minn., Michael J. Chamberlin '59, of Kirkland House and Honolulu, Hawaii, Glenn W. Clark '56, of Winthrop House and Georgetown, Idaho, and John P. Demos '59, of Lowell House and Cambridge...
...point Author Packard prints a chart of the social acceptability of various professions. Pennsylvania-born Vance Packard himself has risen in that scale. He began as a newspaperman (42nd place), but he is now considered a sociologist (27th). He lives in New Canaan, Conn., in a twelve-room house (white frame), and has a Weimaraner, just about the highest-status dog available...
...Mormon interpretation of the curse of Canaan . . . together with unauthorized, but widely accepted statements by [Mormon] leaders in years past, has led to the view among many Mormon adherents that birth into any race other than white is a result of inferior performance in pre-earth life, and that by righteous living dark-skinned races may again become 'white and delightsome...