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...most frolicsome funeral in memory. Through San Francisco's Golden Gate Park wended a legion of hippies, the lads bedizened with beads and scrapes, the lasses with furs and long velvet dresses. Then came the casket, a 15-ft. grey box labeled "Summer of Love," and behind it an equally outsized stretcher on which reclined a hirsute "corpse," clutching a zinnia to its breast-symbol of the death of the flower children. Television cameras ogled the scene as the mourners gathered around the casket and filled it with charms, peacock feathers, orange peels, bread (both edible and negotiable), flags...
Assembled in battle array below the great rock fortress of Masada, the 5,000 men of the Roman Tenth Legion begin their charge, superbly equipped and ready for the task ahead. Above them, behind the ramparts of the fort, 967 Jewish Zealots brace for a last desperate defense. The setting is not the western shore of the Dead Sea, where the outnumbered Zealots committed mass suicide in A.D. 73 rather than surrender to the Romans, but Manhattan's Jewish Museum, where a panoramic display of exquisitely detailed models will open this week depicting the last days of Masada...
...settled, and last week he finally gave in-on one. He allowed a dozen paramilitary farm youths to reoccupy Etzion on the West Bank, sacred to Israelis as the site where four kibbutzim were wiped out in 1948 in a gallant stand that helped save Jerusalem from the Arab Legion. Fearing that the move might be a test for further permanent Israeli settlements in conquered territory, the U.S. State Department asked Israel to clarify its intentions. Jerusalem replied that the settlement was meant to be a military garrison, and that no other settlements were planned that would prejudice peace talks...
Three Cambridge residents spoke in opposition to the petition. Walter Reed, a past director of the American Legion, said "as good Americans, they shouldn't be around with that petition...
Jakobson, 71, is a member of the Norwegian, Danish, Serbian, Netherlands, Polish, and Irish Academies of Science. He was made Chevalier of the French Legion of Honor in 1947, and received the Award of the American Council of Learned Studies...