Word: homers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...battlefield. "Maggie wears mud like other women wear makeup," said an admiring G.I. In fact, she used her blonde, blue-eyed charm to get the stories she wanted, a ploy that left some of her male colleagues sputtering with rage. Angriest of all was her fellow Trib reporter Homer Bigart. "Maggie is driving Homer right into a Pulitzer Prize for the best coverage of the Korean War," said another correspondent. The two drove each other; they shared a Pulitzer...
...NEWS SPECIAL (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). James Mason narrates "The Search for Ulysses," a documentary retracing the Mediterranean journeys of Homer's hero. Color...
Herdar Freiburg. $19. When Troy fell 3,000 years ago, the warrior Odysseus, king of Ithaca, set sail for home. The direct route was only 550 miles, but Odysseus was b'own all over the Mediterranean, took te'n years to reach his native land. Homer first recorded the voyagers' adventures in his epic poem The Odyssey. Now Photographer Erich Lessing has trained his camera on the very scenes that may have met the voyagers' astonished eyes: the shores of Djerba, off the Tunisian Coast, where Odysseus-here given his Roman name of Ulysses-tarried among...
...Chances. Despite the inconvenience and expense-and the ever-present danger that Voyager's reliability might be impaired-NASA has no doubts about the ultimate value of its spacecraft-sterilization program. Says Associate Administrator Homer E. Newell: "Successful biological exploration of the planets is a goal that supersedes in importance any program, flight or schedule that would endanger the eventual acquisition of knowledge of extraterrestrial life...
Blindman's Buff. Man has always held the night in terror?from Homer's day, when the warriors in the Iliad besought Zeus to "deliver from darkness the sons of the Achaeans," through Biblical times, when God's direst threat was to "set darkness upon thy land," right down to the present, on those rare occasions when he encounters...