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...HERA has tentatively decided to hold a rally Tuesday night to explain the project more fully and to aid in the collection campaign. Details of the meeting will be disclosed tomorrow...
Ernest Becker, dean of students at Orange State, said the Harvard entry was "a great thing for the men." He indicated the HERA delegation would be warmly welcomed and during their stay in Fullerton...
Sonita is a four ton, 11 ft female who has experience in the movies. HERA people are hopeful that she will be the oldest female in the herd, thus giving her the position of natural leadership so important in events of that kind...
Squalling Grammarians. Traditional translations make much of Homer's epithets (Hera is "white-armed"; Odysseus generally "crafty"). Graves uses them sparingly, and sometimes ironically. The gods are treated with something less than respect; Zeus is a blowhard who hardly ever means what he says, and Hera, his wife, might be a garden-club president. When Zeus, who favors the Trojans, remarks that Hera protects the Greeks as if they were her own bastards, she replies pertly: "Revered Son of Cronus, what a thing to say!" Cartoonist Ronald Searle's illustrations wittily support Graves's wry treatment...
...laborers set to work (TIME, Sept. 6). From tombs came vivid paintings on stone of household scenes and fighting gladiators. Last summer Sestieri uncovered a small, completely buried building, made a hole in its roof and lowered himself into the stagnant dimness. He was in the central shrine of Hera, Goddess of Fertility, and patron of Paestum. Jars and vases held solidified honey, sacred to Hera (see opposite page). It is likely that no one had entered that shrine for at least 2,500 years...