Word: yeh
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Biblical land of Gilead, on the east side of the Jordan River, stands a flat-topped mound 140 ft. high called Tell es-Sa'īdîyeh, the "Hill of Women of the Sa'īd Tribe." Its surface is thinly littered with pottery fragments, and a sharp eye can pick out traces of ancient walls. Archaeologists have long suspect ed that the place has a formidable his tory, but they could do little more than guess until famed Digger James...
...oldest city on the site of Tell es-Sa'īdîyeh may have been thousands of years old when Abraham first drove his flocks into the land of Canaan...
...that burned was probably Zarethan, which is mentioned in the Bible as the place where the great bronze cauldrons for Solomon's temple were cast. From potsherds found on the surface two decades ago, Archaeologist Nelson Glueck had already deduced that Tell es-Sa'īdîyeh would prove to be Zarethan, but other experts thought it an unlikely place for bronze casting. The nearest copper mines of the time were south of the Dead Sea. Dr. Pritchard weakened this argument by digging up quantities of bronze, including a heavy cast cauldron with a jug and strainer...
...Maniac's Shaping. Though Americans might find the Beatles achingly familiar (their songs consist mainly of "Yeh!" screamed to the accompaniment of three guitars and a thunderous drum), they are apparently irresistible to the English. A short year ago, they were back in Liverpool singing such songs as Twist and Shout and Love Me Do into the din of the tough Merseyside pubs. Now they earn $5,000 a week playing one-night stands all over Britain. Their records have sold 2,500,000 copies, and crowds stampede for a chance to touch the hem of the collarless coats...
...partly because the campaign made no impact on the Chinese people. Now, party dialecticians are trying a new propaganda tack-later marriage. The government lists all sorts of advantages: health, industrial efficiency, psychological adjustment, almost everything except the need to keep the birth rate down. Peking College Medical Professor Yeh Kung-shao spelled it all out explicitly in a recent issue of China Youth Daily. Wrote Yeh: "The ideal age for women [to marry] is from 23 to 25, for men 25 to 29 ... I suggest the women have their first child generally...