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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...date, almost 400 witnesses from 38 states have testified at the various public hearings held by the commission...
...Well," replies his date for the evening, "there's the Godard, an old Fellini, the new Truffau'-"How about something without subtitles for a change? 2001. Or The Midnight Cowboy. Or the Alan Arkin picture...
...most sought-after authorities on rocketry, called upon to advise the Government and writing book after book (Satellites, Rockets and Outer Space, Rockets, Missiles and Men in Space). His death came on the eve of man's scheduled landing on the moon just a year shy of the date he forecast more than 20 years...
...Dozen Troys. Berve, of course, does not deny that a city named Troy once existed. Yet he maintains that none of the archaeological findings to date even remotely supports anything like the Homeric account of Helen's abduction and the Greeks' revenge. To begin with, says Berve, there is the site of Troy itself. Shortly after the German amateur archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann began digging into an 85-ft.-high mound called Hissarlik (Turkish for palace) in the northwestern corner of Turkey in 1870, he decided that he had unearthed the remnants of Priam's palace...
...least a dozen different layers within Schliemann's hillside. None of these historic Troys, Berve savs, would in any way be familiar to the Iliad's readers, except that they overlooked a plain near the Aegean Sea. In fact, the layer that most closely coincides with the date suggested by Homeric scholars for the Trojan War (circa 1200 B.C.), and that is known as Trov VI to archaeologists, seems entirely improbable as the battle site. Berve gives two reasons: 1) the fortifications enclose an area where no more than a few hundred people could have lived, whereas Homer...