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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...toured U.S. military bases, poking into every niche of his new land, sea and air empire. Once installed, he drove up to Capitol Hill, appeared before Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson's Preparedness Investigating Subcommittee, answered questions with a candor that made senatorial friends, and in detail that showed he had done his homework. He stepped confidently into the high society of international diplomacy, went to London and Bonn and wound up at the NATO conference in Paris beside-if slightly to the rear of-President Eisenhower and Secretary of State Dulles...
...thee a great nation.'' What were Abraham's country and kindred like, and what sort of land did God show him? Modern scholarship, drawing on the latest findings of archaeology and textual research, is able to propose answers to those questions in vivid and imaginative detail. Most of the answers are pulled together in a new, smoothly written book for laymen: Abraham: His Heritage and Ours, by Boston Writer Dorothy B. Hill (Beacon Press...
According to The Book of Jubilees, Abraham's father, Terah, made small clay images which Abraham as a boy peddled in the street. Author Hill gives in detail an imaginary account of a trip by the boy Abraham to the great ziggurat of Ur, to present to the priests one of his best doves as a sacrifice to the city's patron deity, Nannar, the moon...
Elusive Critter. What was it? Reporting the 1955 outbreak in detail in the A.M.A.'s current Archives of Internal Medicine, Drs. William L. Wilson, Charles D. Williams, Saul L. Sanders and Richard R.P. Warner (now back in civilian practice) rule out various diseases that exhibit some but not all of the same symptoms-notably infectious mononucleosis and infectious hepatitis. (Also eliminated is a bacterial disease, leptospirosis.) Though similarly baffling, the mysterious complaint is medically distinct from the strange epidemics of "Iceland disease" that have swept some London hospitals and Punta Gorda, Fla. (TIME...
...City Hall lobby, Journal Editor Gene ("Lucky") Farrell refused to knuckle under. Said he: "They can't live without us." Sending as many as five legmen at a time to prowl City Hall, and eking out their reports with wire-service coverage, Editor Farrell explored in acid detail such practices by inexperienced officials as heavy overpayment for a batch of air conditioners and the "economy" of firing 17 city attorneys and replacing them with 19 at the cost of an extra $13,500. Needling Murray's personal foibles, Gene Farrell even told rewrite men and reporters to drop...