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The city and the well were lost to history until this summer, when-after two seasons of excavation at a site called El-Jib a few miles north of Jerusalem-the pool of Gibeon began to flow again. Its discoverer: Archaeologist James B. Pritchard, who in 1951 found the palace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Pool of Gibeon | 10/7/1957 | See Source »

Died. Carl-Gustav Arvid Rossby, 58, world-famed Swedish-born weatherman (TIME, Dec. 17), organizer (1927) of the U.S.'s first airway weather-reporting system, pioneer in modern air-mass-analysis forecasting techniques, discoverer of the "jet stream," founder of Stockholm's International Meteorological Institute; of a coronary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 2, 1957 | 9/2/1957 | See Source »

In all the district, as others scratched away on the creekside for the things they wanted most, only Gold Discoverer David Ambo was sad and idle. "A big Baya-man, who knows all things," said David gloomily, "he told me that the one who discovers gold must never touch it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CAMEROONS: Gold Rush | 7/29/1957 | See Source »

Herbert McLean Evans, discoverer of vitamin E Sc.D.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Kudos, Jun. 24, 1957 | 6/24/1957 | See Source »

It took a new breed of adventurer-explorer to bring the world to Middle Africa and to unfold its wonders for the world -men prompted not by simple greed but by human compassion and scientific curiosity, drawn onward by the land itself. There was the discoverer of Victoria Falls, David...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle Africa: Cradle of Tomorrow | 5/20/1957 | See Source »

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