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...mind's habit: that pretence to lead the national uprising of another race." But the destruction of one myth only created a more complex modern myth-that of the flawed, wounded hero on the order of Philoctetes, whose invincible bow was necessary for the winning of Troy, but whose wound so stank that men shrank from him in horror and disgust...
...Ohio's smoky mill towns, the nursery schools for some of the best pro football players in the U.S.. Ferguson was a legend before he even finished Troy High School, 73 miles west of Columbus. He was so big when he entered Troy-a rock-solid 195 Ibs.-that school officials had to send out mimeographed copies of his birth certificate to quell complaints from rival coaches. Soon the coaches had better reason to gripe. After dropping its first three games during Ferguson's freshman year, Troy never lost another while he was around. College recruiters, awed...
...dilapidated grandeur, is an intimately candid inquiry based on the French axiom that discussion is the better part of indiscretion. It turns out that the Beaurevers belong to a low-fidelity set. Husband Benjamin (Walter Matthau) has been frolicking with Josefa himself after banking hours, and Wife Dominique (Louise Troy) has been slipping with her husband's best friend. The question seems to be whether Josefa or Benjamin had the best motive for doing the worst to that Spanish chauffeur...
Judged on the Washington level, there seem to be several flaws. "Attacking the Army's problems is like uncovering Troy," says one Army officer. "You always find another layer." Says a top Defense Department official: "I look at the whole mess more in sorrow than in anger." In part, the Army's troubles stem from the Eisenhower Administration's "new look" decision to get a bigger bang for a buck by curtailing the weapons of conventional war and concentrating on the massive nuclear deterrent. From a peak strength of 1,668,579 men and a budget...
...Starting from Troy in 1932, Professor . John L. Caskey of the University of Cincinnati has dug his way along the fabled trade routes of the Aegean Sea. Last summer he stopped at the island of Kea, reckoning that its wind-sheltered harbor offered a natural anchorage for ancient mariners. Caskey was right. This summer, on Kea's St. Irene peninsula, he found a Mycenean settlement dating back 3,500 years, complete with temple, palace, private homes with inside plumbing, and a municipal sewer system. Scattered through the town were fragments of delicate Cretan pottery. The settlement was probably destroyed...