Word: various
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...high school but, with the abundance of athletic stars at Harvard, cannot make the intercollegiate teams here. Also, many just do not have time for such a demanding activity because of other interests. Intramurals can serve a valuable function for these students who enjoy athletics, but who, for various reasons, are not involved with intercollegiate squads. They also provide a good way to meet classmates...
...brick blast walls stand on sidewalks in front of doorways. The entrances to a few public buildings are heavily sandbagged. Windows and car headlights are painted blue?the ancient color for warding off the evil eye?to conform to blackout regulations. In erratic fashion, street lights are out in various places. Soldiers slouch in the shade of girders on each of the Nile bridges, and guard the Cairo airport, the railroad terminal and key road junctions on the sprawling city's edges. Sonic booms occasionally rattle the windows of Cairenes as MIG fighters scramble daily on simulated interception missions. Through...
...faculties of Arab universities. But the majority were herded into squalid camps, fed by the United Nations on 7¢ a day and used as pawns by Arab politicians ?particularly Nasser?to justify the continuing struggle with Israel. While diplomats spent over 20 years discussing and dropping various plans for resettling them, the Palestinian children were being taught as their primary subjects hatred for Israel and a determination to regain their land in the same way it was taken away?by force. Now grown to young manhood, they are the world's dividend of neglect, the fedayeen...
...uncovered most of the known facts about the 22 successive cities that were built on the site from the third millennium until 200 B.C. Egyptians, Israelites, Aramaeans, Assyrians, Babylonians and Persians in turn laid siege to the city and built Hazor's fortifications anew. On various levels of the tell (an archaeological mound), Yadin has unearthed the remains of Solomon's mighty city gates, three separate Canaanite temples, basalt slabs engraved with hands praying to the sun, and an Israelite temple similar to Solomon's but built 300 years before his time. From the ruins, Yadin...
...Committee plans to investigate problems which may arise from "the increase of faculty and students, the widening and deepening of programs, the heightened recognition of the interdependence of various faculties, and the growth of plant and Budget...