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...sumptuous Uruguayan resort town of Punta del Este, 65 miles east of Montevideo. It was an odd setting for talk about poverty, but there last week, in the blue and white assembly hall of Punta del Este's Cantegril Country Club, the economic ministers of 21 hemisphere nations gath ered to launch a historically dramatic new program of massive aid for Latin America's underdeveloped nations - the Alliance for Progress (see THE HEMISPHERE...
Johns Hopkins identified it 30 years ago as the Philistine city of Gath, home town of the giant Goliath who died when Slingshot Expert David sunk a stone in his forehead. The Israeli government named a nearby settlement Kiryat Gath (Gath-town), and settlers were proud of Gath's Biblical background, even though the city and Goliath had been anti-Israelite...
Nowhere did Yeivin find evidence that the tell had ever been a Philistine city. It could not. therefore, have been Goliath's Gath. But what was it? How could so big a city exist for so many thousands of years without leaving a trace in history...
...fall of the Civitas (of Troy or of God?) may be intended as humorous, but the subject does not strike one as very funny. Whatever Reiger's attitude, his irony collapses in confusion with the mock melodrama of "O tell it not in Askelon,/Let not the daughters of Gath rejoice!" Reiger himself seems undecided whether to take his subject seriously...
TELL IT NOT IN GATH, PUBLISH IT NOT IN THE STREETS OF ASKELON.†When the Advertiser questioned screwball Mayor Orville Hubbard (TIME, March 5, 1951) of Dearborn, Mich., he bragged that not a single Negro could get a place to live in his city of 114,000, though 15,000 of them worked there. Said the mayor: "I am for complete segregation, one million percent, on all levels...