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...Canaan, on the Mediterranean's eastern shore, with his childless wife Sarah, his brother's son Lot, his slaves and herds. The land he found was anything but the primitive pastoral society Bible scholars assumed until recently. The excavation of the ancient cities of Ugarit and Mari in the 1930s shows a culture already old in Abraham's day, which was celebrated for its music and art, bronze work and historical and religious epics. Diplomatic and commercial documents preserved on clay tablets indicate that Abraham, a rich man now, must have lived in a highly sophisticated world...
Thirteen members of the class were elected to the Massachusetts Iota Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, it was announced today. New members are Grace O. Adkins of South Norwalk, Conn.; Mari Jane DeCosta of Highland Park, III.; Anna Fellner of New Haven, Conn.; Faith Howard of Westmount, Quebec; and Ellen Franzen, Deirdre Hubbard, and Sheila LaFarge, all of New York City. Also Amy Mims, of Chicago, III.; Carol S. Powers of Swampscott, Mass.; Virginia Rhinelander of Stanford, Calif.; Sallyann A. Sack of Cleveland, Ohio; and Judith Schultz of Huntington Valley, Penn...
Married. James Michener, 48, novelist (The Bridges of Toko-ri), connoisseur of things Japanese (The Floating World), 1947 Pulitzer Prizewinner for Tales of the South Pacific; and Colorado-born Nisei Mari Yoriko Sabusawa, 35, assistant editor of the American Library Association Bulletin; he for the third time, she for the first; in Chicago...
...government' [her parents] does not understand at all, but getting up a teenage party requires agonizing preparation. Henry, a Tyrone Power type with a notably gay mambo style, won't come if Gladys is invited because she just put him in a state of siege (see below). Mariá Cristina can't come without her brother and he is an incunable* of 24, all serious and gummy. When everything is arranged, parents must be convinced that a woman of 14 can wear this dress and this hairdo and lipstick, too. Generally, she does...
...helter-skelter chases-e.g., from an off-limits Japanese bathhouse to an airport-are conducted by practically every means of locomotion from foot to Army truck. Also involved are a renegade American (Russell Johnson) smuggling explosives into North Korea, a slinky Eurasian (Mari Blanchard), a harassed MP major (Vaughn Taylor) and an apoplectic general (Barry Kelley...