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Aid & Ballet. The Soviets now run the biggest development program in an area that desperately needs industrialization. Their engineers have started work on a dam on the Euphrates that will supply electricity to much of Syria, and are prospecting for oil in Egypt. In all, Soviet teams are engaged in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East: Arms for Embracing | 1/19/1968 | See Source »

"A car swished up," Cross remembers, with the banker driving, and another man in the front seat "hiding, with his head between his knees." Cross jumped into the back seat, and the car dodged through the back streets. He studied the back of the head of the person hiding in...

Author: By Diana L. Ordin, | Title: There's Nothing Dead About The Dead Sea Scrolls That A Lot of Money Couldn't Cure | 12/4/1967 | See Source »

But for three years Nehemiah sat with two other Jews in a concrete blockhouse, and rifle-in-hand, guarded the three hundred Arabs who scoured minerals off vast earthen pools as the tepid Dead Sea water evaporated. Nehemiah earned 37 Agorah (12 cents) a day, and learned Arabic.

Author: By David Blumenthal, | Title: Israel: The View From a Kibbutz | 10/18/1967 | See Source »

John Philby, a noted Arabic scholar who adopted the Moslem religion and became chief adviser to Saudi Arabia's King Ibn Saud, Kim was born to rebellion. An "old boy" of an exclusive British public school, he was recruited by the Communists in 1934 while he was studying German...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Communist in M.I. 6 | 10/13/1967 | See Source »

The problem is far more complicated than that, as any scientist who has tried merely to determine the biological races has discovered. Among the first to try was the German zoologist Johann Friedrich Blumenbach in 1775. On the basis of physical characteristics, he saw five human subspecies or races-a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: RACE & ABILITY | 9/29/1967 | See Source »

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