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Paris could scarcely have been more than a tribal village when Phoenician sailors established Massilia on the southern coast of France during the 6th century B.C. So strong were the Massilians and the fortifications they built that not until Caesar laid extended siege to Massilia in 49 B.C. did the city's streets clink to the armor of invaders. Subsequently Romanized, then later buried for centuries beneath the foundations of what became the port of Marseille, the fortifications were unearthed this summer when contractors began excavations for three high-rise commercial buildings, a cultural center...
Sophocles' Ajax was also taken off the boards, as was Euripides' Phoenician Women. Aristophanes' bawdy political satires, The Birds, The Clouds and The Frogs, got the hook at the Athens Festival...
...Phoenix benefit. The Women had changed, if ever so subtly. To bring the text up to date for the performance of the 44-girl cast-all played by Phoenician socialite amateurs -Playwright Luce had used her author's prerogative to pencil in changes. "Look, Schiaparelli!" became "Look, Balenciaga!" "No one has mistaken you for Mrs. Harrison Williams yet" was changed to "for Princess Radziwill"; "I wish I could make up my mind whether or not I like Shirley Temple" was updated to "whether I like the Beatles." Originally, when the cigarette girl asked...
...subsidy to help build a $250 million fleet of 16 freighters. While new forms of transportation were being devised elsewhere (see WORLD BUSINESS), Skouras showed off designs for vessels intended to cut shipping costs and vastly speed up cargo-handling methods, which have been basically the same since Phoenician times. It took considerable showmanship for the head of a relatively small line to make such grandiose proposals, but the U.S. Maritime Administration is seriously considering them...
...sprouts new buildings like palm trees, boasts more Mercedeses than mullahs, lures thousands of tourists and happily shares its year-round sunshine with courtesans in bikinis as well as desert Arabs in burnooses. But Beirut's most beneficent climate is the climate of trade, the heritage of its Phoenician forebears. In the Levantine landscape nothing seems to grow faster or greener than the city's banks...