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It is the Americans, of course, who are accused of being obsessed with cleanliness and of trying to convert the world to the glory of the bathroom. But the Romans were far greater bathers. The author observes that the Baths of Caracalla covered an area six times greater than that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Gardy-Loo! | 4/11/1960 | See Source »

Arrows for the Romans. Searching cave after cave, Dr. Aharoni and his men found many traces of the ancient refugees. Roman coins of widely separated dates suggested that a remnant of the Jewish resistance force held out for a century. From one of the caves came a woman's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Hideouts in the Wadi | 3/7/1960 | See Source »

Want to think? See "Caligula." Stunningly set and magnificently costumed, it is acted to the hilt by Kenneth Haigh and a vast army of Romans.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BROADWAY: Creative Advertising | 2/29/1960 | See Source »

Decline & Fall. In Upton, Dorset County, England, dismayed by the shoddy condition of one of the town's roads, D. K. Coleman fired off a letter to Italy, asked the Romans to come back to Britain and repair the road they built 1,600 years ago.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 22, 1960 | 2/22/1960 | See Source »

From the day that the ingenious Romans set up their first roadside bibulium in conquered Britannia, there have been pubs in England. Such emblems as the White Horse (banner of the Saxons), the Sun (badge of Richard the Lionhearted) or St. George and0 the Dragon recall a proud past. There...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Time, Gentlemen ... | 2/15/1960 | See Source »

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