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...single city for 1,500 years after Babylonia fell. Visiting the U.S. last week, British Archaeologist David Storm Rice told how he rummaged in the almost unexplored ruins of Harran in southern Turkey. Harran was a thriving Moslem city until it was destroyed by the Mongols in the 13th century A.D., but Dr. Rice's interest goes back to 2000 B.C., when Harran was a famous center of worship of the long-bearded moon-god, Sin, giver of light and wisdom. Harran was also visited by Abraham on his way from Ur of the Chaldees to the land...
...from the Hebrew rabbi, meaning teacher. *An esoteric system of speculation on metaphysics which went in for much symbolical manipulation of words and names. The cabala originated in Palestine but came under strong Babylonian influence between 500 and 900 A.D. Its best-known work, the Zohar, compiled in the 13th century, had a profound influence on Hasidism...
Screening Process. In Dayton, arrested for bigamy after being married to seven men since her 13th birthday, the last two marriages without benefit of divorce, 23-year-old Cynthia Corraditti offered an explanation: "It was hard to find a guy I could trust...
Massed tier on tier in the galleries are the canvases of dozens of topflight artists from 13th century Italians to 19th century French impressionists. Sample wholesale lots: 27 Rembrandts (including The Re turn of the Prodigal Son, often called his best work), 40 Rubens, at least a dozen each of Cezanne and Picasso.* The walls are magnificently cluttered. "The emphasis in Russia is not on art as we know it," explains Callisen, "but on culture and the history of culture. So where we would put some things in storage, they hang everything...
...individual stockholder (250,000 shares). To appease the Tomlinson faction, the present management, headed by President Joseph R. Vogel, agreed on a slate to be presented to the stockholders. The tentative lineup: six directors for management, six for Tomlinson's group (including Tomlinson himself), with the all-important 13th director still to be decided. ¶L. E. ("Doc") Briggs, gregarious treasurer of Ford Motor Co., will retire Jan. 31 on his 65th birthday after 42 years with the company, be replaced by publicity-shy J. Edward Lundy, former member of the Princeton economics faculty who joined Ford...