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Last week an American archaeologist disclosed that he had stumbled on the locale of Socrates' trial in new excavations just north of the ancient Athenian marketplace and civic center. Professor T. Leslie Shear Jr. of Princeton University and the American School of Classical Studies in Athens identified the area as the site of the Stoa (or portico) of the Basileus. As the No. 2 man in the nine-man elected Athenian hierarchy, the basileus often acted as the city's chief magistrate. It was in this capacity that he presided over the Athenian judges who ordered Socrates...
...Irving Shear. spokesman for the Boston Postal District, said yesterday that only four of the area's 90 stations did not report to work. Members of the Boston branch of the Massachusetts Letter Carriers Association voted at a tumultuous meeting Sunday night to return to work after a brief stoppage Saturday...
...Shear said that-except for the four striking stations in Belmont, Newtonville, Newton Center, and Auburnville-the only effect the strike will have is on mail destined for metropolitan New York. This mail, he said, will be held until the strike is over...
John Lennon and his wife Yoko Ono were among the most densely forested. This month a hairdresser was secretly called in to shear them. John kept his beard but emerged looking like an earnest young seminary student. Yoke's locks were cropped in the old Mia Farrow style. Their motive was to avoid being recognized in crowds, but American parents may hope, probably in vain, that the event will set a new tonsorial style...
...result of research by Department of Agriculture scientists, an unskilled la borer can now equal the speed of a shear er by literally peeling wool from a sheep with his bare hands...