Word: peninsula
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...soon get another important fuel supply-natural gas. In Washington the Federal Power Commission handed down permission for Texas Wheeler-Dealer Clint Murchison to hook his Coastal Transmission Corp. into Houston Texas Gas & Oil Corp., build a $150 million pipeline system to supply gas everywhere along the fast-growing peninsula...
...wake of Israel's tough little army, a task force of scholars and pilgrims may invade the Sinai peninsula. Their objective: to find Mount Sinai, lost in the desert drifts of history...
Four Possibilities. Ever since the six-day blitz against Egypt, Israel's Minister of Religion, Dr. Samuel Cahane, has been snowed in by cables and letters from would-be pilgrims hoping to see the holy mountain while Israel still held the peninsula (Jewish travelers had been discouraged by the Egyptians). "It seems as if all the Jews in the world want to go to Mount Sinai," said Dr. Cahane. But nobody knows where Sinai is. Modern archaeologists and ancient traditions recognize four main possibilities...
...Most popular theory is that Sinai is Jebel Musa (Mount of Moses), an impressive 8,000-ft. of granite in the southern end of the Sinai peninsula. Part of the Greek monastery of St. Catherine there dates back to 330 A.D., indicating how old the tradition is. But to get to Jebel Musa, Moses would have had to lead his people through the Egyptian copper and turquoise mines in the area...
Last week, after a conference with 100 rabbis, Minister Cahane and Scholar Mazar were planning an expedition into the Sinai peninsula to seek evidence that would back up their theory. But the Israeli army was in no mood to wait for the archaeologist's word. Last week a jeep-borne band of soldiers barreled down from their base in the Sinai peninsula to Jebel Musa. There they climbed the 737 steps in the sheer rock to plant the Israeli flag where they were sure that Moses talked to God. At the nearby monastery of St. Catherine they picked...