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Edward Roscoe Murrow, one of the reportorial heroes of the Battle of Britain and TV's David against Goliath McCarthy, last week found his name linked with what one snickering newspaper called "doves of sin." It happened through CBS radio's lively tabloid report on "The Business of Sex" (TIME, Jan. 26), which alleged wholesale pimping by U.S. business to soften up clients. Murrow himself had got into the act only three weeks before showtime, read a script somebody else had written for him with his usual sonorous solemnity. But his voice had scarcely stopped vibrating when...
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...
...Director Shmuel Yeivin of Israel's Department of Antiquities set 100 laborers digging into Tell Goliath, as it came to be called. On top they found a largely Arab cemetery. Below it were traces of Greek and Persian influence. Even lower was an Israelite layer, which showed signs of a great fire that Yeivin thinks may have raged in 586 B.C., during the Babylonian invasion under Nebuchadnezzar. Beneath was a city of the Canaanites, who occupied the Promised Land before Joshua's invasion...
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...
Yeivin thinks that Tell Goliath may well be Mamshat. Other Israelis hope that he is right. The Hebrews of the Old Testament were hillbillies living in the mountains. The rich lowlands belonged to the Philistine "cities of the plain." Now the Judean hills belong mostly to Arabs, while the Israelis occupy former Philistine territory. If Tell Goliath proves to be Mamshat, it will be an exception: a city of the plain that was Jewish in ancient times and is today part of modern Israel...