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...Women's Liberation goes," Tomasello added, "let my wife come and shovel out my driveway as well as I do-that's when there will be Women's Liberation...
...Reform rabbi who thought the Bible a reliable map to buried historical treasure and proved it by digging his way to more than 1,500 archaeological finds in Transjordan and the Negev (TIME cover, Dec. 13, 1963); in Cincinnati. Dr. Glueck was called both "the scholar with a shovel" and "the rabbi with a rifle" because of his fearless exploring in the sniper-infested desert of strife-torn Israel...
...Saturday, at an unmercifully early hour for most Americans (5:50 a.m. E.S.T.), Shepard and Mitchell are scheduled to emerge for their second EVA and load up their new collapsible two-wheeled lunar handcart with cameras, hand tools, shovel and sampling cores. Then they will begin their major geological traverse: a rock-collecting hike up the side of 400-ft.-high Cone Crater, nearly a mile away. Although the two lunar mountaineers will not descend into the crater itself, they will conduct a kind of rock festival on its rim: they will chip stone from large boulders and roll some...
...rented it for $30,000 a well, or dry hole. The bit is still the base of the Hughes fortune. "We don't have a monopoly," Hughes once remarked. "Anyone who wants to dig a well without a Hughes bit can always use a pick and shovel...
Rifles Within Reach. Israel felt confident enough last week to relax for the first time in many months. Defense Minister Moshe Dayan, who said recently that the war may be entering its final phase, left his office, picked up a shovel and went off to follow his favorite pastime of archaeological digging. Chief of Staff Haim Bar-Lev joined 22,000 other fans at a soccer game in Tel Aviv, and Jack Benny appeared in a semiserious concert with the Israeli Philharmonic. At week's end the nation halted all activity for Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. Just...