Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Yale doctoral candidate, to Latvian-born Astra Zarina Haner, 30, an apprentice of Detroit's famed Architect Minoru Yamasaki. Like the 27 current fellows, all are likely to be profoundly invigorated by the academy's unique formula: freedom amid Rome's riches, from the ancient Forum to the soaring Olympic stadium...
...anxious to renovate the elegant but ailing villa ("With us, it's boiling water or none," says one fellow's wife). But the men on Janiculum hill have little complaint beyond the plumbing. Stimulated by endless debates on life, art and talent in the atmosphere of ancient Rome, they have grown in every way. "Before I came here," says San Francisco Architect Aldo Casanova, 31, "I only studied and taught. Now, in what is supposed to be seclusion, I feel as though I have been exposed to the real world for the first time...
...banner week for dreamboat groaners, modern and ancient. First off, winsome Nancy Sinatra, 19, daughter of aging (44) Crooner Frank Sinatra, got herself engaged to curly-topped Tommy Sands, 22, one of the few new voices with any detectable talent. Glowed Papa Sinatra approvingly: "I'm very pleased. It's good to have another singer in the family, because I'm getting tired." Then Nancy winged east to New Jersey, where she was on hand at McGuire Air Force Base early one morning, when Mr. Rock 'n' Roll himself, Sergeant Elvis Presley...
Arrows for the Romans. Searching cave after cave, Dr. Aharoni and his men found many traces of the ancient refugees. Roman coins of widely separated dates suggested that a remnant of the Jewish resistance force held out for a century. From one of the caves came a woman's comb, fragments of clothing, and a piece used in chess or some similar game. In another were arrows with cane shafts, no doubt intended for use against Roman legionnaires. At each end of the wadi, Dr. Aharoni's expedition found the ruins of blockhouses built by the Romans...
...Heritage and Its History, by Ivy Compton-Burnett. In impeccably stylized dialogue, the autor writes her 16th ostensibly comic novel, brimful of the vanity of human wishes and the tragic fatality of ancient Greek drama...