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Dairy in the Round. This week, over the Fourth of July, thousands of Americans will visit the two remaining active Shaker communities-near Portland, Me., and Canterbury, N.H.-as well as others in Pleasant Hill, Ky., Old Chatham, N.Y., and Hancock, Mass., where original Shaker buildings have been converted into museums. There they can buy Shaker jams, inspect Shaker houses, recapture a whiff of that eternal Shaker afternoon...
...bizarre exhibitionism last month's wedding of Carol Lee Garrett and James J. Kimmel in a hippie commune near Novato, Calif., was indicative, if not exactly typical, of a current trend in marriages. More and more couples are breaking away from traditional mar riage ceremonies to invent their...
Schliemann's hill was situated near two springs and a river, and he knew that Homer had written in the Iliad that, when the Greek warriors reached...
...archaeologists have identified at least a dozen different layers within Schliemann's hillside. None of these historic Troys, Berve savs, would in any way be familiar to the Iliad's readers, except that they overlooked a plain near the Aegean Sea. In fact, the layer that most closely coincides with the date suggested by Homeric scholars for the Trojan War (circa 1200 B.C.), and that is known as Trov VI to archaeologists, seems entirely improbable as the battle site. Berve gives two reasons: 1) the fortifications enclose an area where no more than a few hundred people could...
Expanding Universe. Conklin set up two small radio telescope antennas at the University of California's White Mountain Research Station, atop a 12,500-ft. peak near Yosemite National Park, and pointed them in opposite directions. For 23 days, the antennas swept different quadrants of the skies; periodically they were reversed to reduce the risk of built-in electronic error. By comparing the slight variations in readings, Conklin was able to calculate the earth's velocity toward the distant sea of radiation...