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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...
...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...
...conferred in Saigon, their opposite numbers were doing the same in the North Viet Nam capital of Hanoi. In this case, the military advisers were a Red Chinese mission that significantly included the commander in chief of Red China's air force. The delegation's leader, Marshal Yeh Chien-ying, described China and North Viet Nam as "lip and teeth neighbors" who maintain "fraternal cooperation and friendship in all fields." Hong Kong Communist newspapers boast that Red China will match U.S. help to Saigon with increased help to Hanoi, and imply that Marshal Yeh is Mao Tse-tung...