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Modern Jericho is a grubby Jordanian town, 17 miles northeast of Jerusalem, built among the heaped remains of many earlier Jerichos. Archaeologists burrow into the ruins with insatiable delight, and last week Kathleen Kenyon, director of the British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem, was completing the excavation of Jericho's first city wall. She believes it was built at least 3,500 years before Joshua and the children of Israel came trumpeting out of the wilderness...
These examinations will be used by students applying from the 40 schools in the Kenyon group. This group of secondary schools gives advanced level courses to its unusually able students. If the students pass these spring placement tests they gain admission to upper level courses in the participating colleges...
...cloying, combination of Lincoln and sex; the second used the rhythmic movements of 18 actors (as many as were employed in the cast of State of the Union) to create a mock political parade and rally that ended up as a plug for Ford cars. Adman Blake Johnson of Kenyon & Eckhardt reported that the commercials, which were colorcast, cost five times more than usual and were rehearsed for three days instead of the customary few hours. Pontiac commercials concentrate on good "portrait shots" of the car while an off-screen announcer raves about "this year's sensation that thrills...
...Author Jarrell, who now teaches at the Women's College of the University of North Carolina, has also taught at Kenyon College, the University of Texas and New York's fashionable Sarah Lawrence...
With $189,000 from the Fund for the Advancement of Education, the 130 educators went to work more than a year ago, under the direction of a central committee headed by Presidents Gordon K. Chalmers of Kenyon College and William H. Cornog of Philadelphia's Central High School. The first thing they decided was that even the brightest students can be hurt by going to college too soon. Then they began devising advanced courses that pupils could take in school for full college credit. Last week the twelve participating colleges formally approved the recommendations made for courses in English...