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...years (166-160 B.C.) he led pious Jews in rebellion against the Greeks, who had dedicated the temple in Jerusalem to the worship of Olympian Zeus and sacrificed pigs on the altar. Three centuries later the Jewish hero Bar Kochba led a less successful three-year rebellion against the Romans, briefly set himself up as king in Jerusalem...
...Three hundred and fifty delegates from 67 nations (including 55 U.N. members) could look out last week at lofty, snowcapped peaks as they argued about lofty principles for world freedom of the press. As usual when good, bad & indifferent fellows get together, not all the debates were on an Olympian plane; there was much bitter name-calling about press warmongering, censorship, monopoly and suppression...
...Actor of Olympian Manner. Thus last week Douglas MacArthur strode on to the U.S. presidential-election stage. The audience perked up immediately. Here, among characters whose performances were greying with familiarity, was an actor of Olympian manner and delivery, a man to put emotion into the show. General MacArthur was a candidate to arouse either intense hostility or deep admiration. Ever since the early days of the Pacific war, anti-MacArthur feeling (e.g., "Dugout Doug") has been whipped up by a strange medley ranging from Navy men to Communist-fronters. This hostile sentiment on personal rather than professional grounds...
Quaint old Printing House Square, home of the, London Times, is the closest thing to a shrine that journalism has built. For 163 years its editorial sanctum has been a cradle for Olympian thunderbolts, and its correspondents, often better informed than Whitehall's diplomats, have helped shape British policy as well as interpret...
Unless the hockey team can rise to Olympian heights, tonight's 8:30 o'clock tilt with Dartmouth should be little more than the crowning blow to an already dismal week on the rink. Unable to produce against B.U. or Princeton, there seems little hope for the Crimson to beat a Big Green outfit that has won 15 games in 16 starts this season...