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...Marquis Piero Nicola Gargallo, set out to find the vanished island. A serious amateur archaeologist, Gargallo, 32, centered his search in the area favored by traditional archaeological opinion-near the Dardanelles, on the ancient Greek invasion route to Troy. For tips on the island's precise location, he reread the pertinent passages in Homer and other ancients. Then, studying a detailed British navy map, he came upon a sunken land mass known as Kharos Bank, a 10-sq.-mi. area near the island of Lemnos, mentioned by Homer in connection with Chryse...
...steady diet of Cuban colony news. Although an estimated 7,500 copies of Avance reach Cuba every week (at least 2,500 are confiscated or dumped by fearful agents), Zayas cannot estimate the actual readership because, he reports, some copies have found their way back to Miami so read, reread and worn out that they seem almost a transparent sheet of Scotch tape. There is speculation over Avance's glossy finances, but Zayas insists that he has no big angel, that the paper is breaking even on advertising...
...boundaries are already drawn," said Pérez Serantes in a pastoral letter read throughout his archdiocese and this week reread in many Havana churches. "It can no longer be said that Communism is at the gates, because in truth it is within, speaking powerfully...
Granted, Tennessee Williams' plays are objectionable and shocking to those critics who have forgotten their college literature. I suggest they reread Dante's Inferno or Voltaire's Candide. Anyone familiar with these masterpieces could hardly be shocked by anything as mild as Suddenly, Last Summer...
...Hong Kong last week, experts on Red China read and reread this statement: "To speak of greatness in a man is not to say that he is always correct." What lent fascination to this seemingly innocuous sentence from Peking's New China SemiMonthly was the fact that the Chinese word it used for "greatness" is one the Reds usually reserve for Mao Tse-tung. With customary bafflegab. Peking was publicly admitting that Chairman Mao has been forced into a humiliating retreat by the stubbornness of "The Old Hundred Names"-Red China's faceless peasant masses...