Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crowd had cheered for ten minutes when former President Alberto Lleras Camargo, who symbolizes opposition to Strongman Rojas Pinilla, arrived and took a seat. No sooner had the cheering died down than the President's 22-year-old daughter Maria Eugenia and her husband, pro-government Publisher Samuel Moreno, stepped into the presidential box. In the Colombian equivalent for booing, the throng angrily whistled them out of the stadium-an insult that doubtless threw hot-tempered General Rojas Pinilla into a boiling rage...
Eventually the shepherds made their way to St. Mark's Convent, Jerusalem, where Archbishop Samuel expressed interest in buying the pieces. He obtained five of the original eight scrolls for a small sum; the remaining three eventually came into the hands of a Hebrew University professor. Samuel still had no real idea of his purchase's worth. Nearly a year later, he took them to the American School of Oriental Research in Jerusalem where incredulous scholars estimated they were written at the beginning of the Christian era. The remarkable find was soon announced to the world. It was received with...
...Arab-Isreali clashes. After a priest at St. Mark's died of shell fire, the Archbishop decided to remove the Scrolls to safety, which to him, at least, meant the United States. There was question of ownership, because the Jordan government has first rights on all archeological finds. Consequently Samuel was not able to sell the Scrolls immediately for the large sum he had hoped. Not until seven years later could he dispose of his priceless possession, despite an exhibition in the Library of Congress. Samuel finally used an intermediary to complete a deal with the Hebrew University...
Joseph D. St. Clair, Assistant Counsel to Joseph N. Welch in the Army-McCarthy hearings, and Samuel M. Lane '31, former assistant to the U.S. Attorney General, will speak tonight on "Law," in the first of the 1956 Conferences on Careers...
Guys and Dolls. Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra, Vivian Blaine in Samuel Goldwyn's $5,000,000 version of the Broadway musical. It's a beaut, but Sam made the prints too long (TIME...