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...knows where Zadok's tomb might be, and all explanations, measurements, and other details await the finding of "this book," whatever and wherever it is. Experts, accustomed to Middle Eastern tall tales of buried treasure, are skeptical of the troves' existence-especially since the quantity is so huge. But this is not likely to keep scholars from speculating as to what an otherworldly sect of ascetics like the Essenes might be doing with such a hoard. Nor is it likely to keep treasure seekers from getting out picks and shovels and starting...
...home. They ransacked her files, put her through a daylong interrogation. At one point her interrogator demanded: "Where does liberalism end and treason begin?" Then she was charged with "attack against the external security of the state and the integrity of the territory" and put in jail to await a flight to Algeria to stand trial...
Keeping a date with the law, Manhattan Gambler Frank Costello, 65, turned himself over to a U.S. marshal to start serving a five-year stretch for evading $28,532 in federal income taxes, was sent off to a detention jail to await his denaturalization trial next month...
...unwilling to wrestle with complexities will stop reading sociology entirely. In writing five large books in as many years, however, Parsons admits he could not produce "polished or perfect" works. But sociology is not yet ready for a definitive work, he believes. When so many important problems await original exploration, "perfection can in a sense be a block to progress...
...Parsons himself continually emphasizes, sociology is a frontier science, and sound appraisals of its pioneers must await further exploration. In the meantime, as one professor has declared, "No one can be a serious sociologist without being influenced by Talcott Parsons...