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...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 of Herod at Jericho...
...Herod is raging...
Molotov's departure had been long foreseen; the surprise was in the timing. In a gesture worthy of Herod, Molotov's head was served on a platter as a welcome to Tito...
There were savage riots in January, and there may be more violence at any moment, but for the 800-odd Christian monks, priests, ministers and missionaries who care for Christianity's holy places in the Old City, time passes in centuries. "Just as Herod's men in the time of Our Lord used to buy up vegetables here and send them to Rome," said an Irish priest last week, "so the Americans in the oilfields down in Saudi Arabia send lorries today to buy up our food at prices we can't match...
...paintings, probably because, as he once wrote of his famous painting Three Judges: "What had seemed to me so simple pictorially has been thought a curious enigma." Guessing who the old king might be, a former director of the Carnegie Institute says: "He may be a David, a Herod or a Sennacherib, for he is an epitome of Oriental magnificence." Said another critic: "It is as though the whole sorrow of mankind were concentrated on the old king." Whoever the king, he speaks in many languages to many willing subjects. Since the Carnegie acquired the painting 15 years...