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Ever since the discovery of Biblical manuscripts in a Palestine cave seven years ago (TIME, Oct. 31, 1949), archeologists have been looking with renewed diligence for more. Seventeen months ago, in a cave at Wadi Qumran, in Jordan, a band of diggers found a stone writing table almost 2,000 years old, and strewn about it scraps of leather and papyrus, enough to fill several bushel baskets. The Hebrew script on the papyrus was minuscule,'and many fragments could be read only with the help of an infrared camera. But the texts, when examined, turned out to cover almost...
...their wedding night, the honeymooners did their best to dodge newsmen, finally hid out at a $6-a-night motel in Paso Robles, Calif. Seventeen hours later, they disappeared again in Joe's blue Cadillac. When she is settled down Marilyn plans to commute between her studio and San Francisco, where Joe is a public-relations executive for a spaghetti firm. Cracked a Fox official: "We didn't lose an actress; we gained an outfielder...
...jail if Sam Bass, the train robber, had not come to town on July 19, 1878 to hold up the Williamson County Bank. "Sam Bass," in the words of a mournful cowboy ballad, "was born in Indiana, it was his native home, and at the age of seventeen he first began to roam; he come way out to Texas a cowboy fur to be, and a kinder-hearted feller you'd seldom ever see." Kind-hearted or not, Bass was laid for by the citizens of Round Rock, who had been warned by a stool pigeon of his intentions...
From 1913 to 1933, a student taking seventeen full extension courses with a grade of C or higher in twelve of them, qualified for an Associate in Arts degree. His choice of subjects was and still is restricted by generally the same General Education requirements as a Harvard undergraduate...
...Schwinger worked late, he began early. At the age of seventeen he published his first paper in the Physical Review. Since then, he has been contributing constantly, delving into topics of higher physics. In his own highly specialized, creative field, Schwinger is almost alone; there are only a handful of theoretical physicists of his prolificy in the world...