Word: columbus
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SAILS OF HOPE The Secret Mission of Christopher Columbus by SIMON WIESENTHAL 248 pages. Macmillan...
...Columbus a Jew? Was his expedition to the Indies actually a search for the lost tribes of Israel? Such questions-never satisfactorily answered-are asked in this compact, fascinating, exasperating reinterpretation of Columbus' mission. The author is Simon Wiesenthal, head of the Vienna Documentation Center, which meticulously tracked down Adolf Eichmann as well as more than 1,000 other Nazi war criminals...
Wiesenthal brings a detective's breathless prose to his various hypotheses, but his message-that Columbus was a crypto-Jew or, more likely, a descendant of converted Jews-is anything but new. Spain's eminent historian and novelist Salvador de Madariaga covered the ground four decades...
Adams House, where Tetirick says he is one of only two varsity gridders, is a far cry from the atmosphere of Columbus, Ohio, where he played on three consecutive state championship teams at Upper Arlington High School...
...winners of the senior class marshal election are: David St. Pierre of Eliot House and Salem, first marshal; Ric Rojas of Leverett House and Los Alamos, N.M., second marshal; Robert P. Kristoff of Kirkland House and Columbus, Ohio, third marshal; and John R. McCambridge of Eliot House and Oak Lawn, Ill., fourth marshal...