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Perrot's work in the land of the Horites is not finished. In the outskirts of Beersheeba, he has found seven buried cave villages, one of which has a two-storied room shaped like an hourglass. When he has explored all of them and learned by radioactive analysis just how old they are, he will be able to tell better than the Bible does what life was like "by the wilderness" before the time of Abraham...
...little about. In India, there are many names for them-Anglo-Indians, Eurasians, half-castes, chee-chees, blacky-whites, eight-annas.* Victoria Jones, an eight-anna girl, is "the color of dark ivory." She is a lush beauty with come-hither eyes and a figure that would make an hourglass seem angular. But in 1946. with the British on their way out of India, Victoria's problem is acute. ("We couldn't become English, because we were half Indian. We couldn't become Indian, because we were half English...
...Christian Democrats, are themselves riven by conflicting philosophies, contradictory aims and quarreling personalities. For six months they have hardly governed, and merely held on to power by a melancholy juggling of parliamentary numbers. Order, purpose and initiative trickled out of government like sand whispering through the neck of an hourglass. Last week the whisper grew to a crash. Premier Giuseppe Pella and his government resigned; Italy was left leaderless...
...Hitler and his beer-hall fanatics flared up in their 1923 Putsch, the army ground it out in the Munich gutters. Later the officer corps began to think it could use Hitler to fashion a Reich more to its liking. But once the ex-corporal got to twirling the hourglass of history, the sands of power ran out fast for the corps. The day was to come when German generals would be framed, tortured and hung from meat-hooks, and their fellow officers could not lift a hand except to heil Hitler...
...Change. The Gibson Girl of half a century ago, whaleboned into an hourglass shape, almost never heard the word "sex." It was a relatively new scientific term, to be distinguished from "love," which was too idealized, and "lust," which was too blunt...