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Assembled in battle array below the great rock fortress of Masada, the 5,000 men of the Roman Tenth Legion begin their charge, superbly equipped and ready for the task ahead. Above them, behind the ramparts of the fort, 967 Jewish Zealots brace for a last desperate defense. The setting is not the western shore of the Dead Sea, where the outnumbered Zealots committed mass suicide in A.D. 73 rather than surrender to the Romans, but Manhattan's Jewish Museum, where a panoramic display of exquisitely detailed models will open this week depicting the last days of Masada...
...potsherds, Yadin believes, could well have been used in the final casting of the lots by Ben Ya'ir and his ten commanders, just before the advance guard of the Tenth Legion breached Masada's walls and found all of the defenders dead...
During the 1965 trial according to the report, crop loss from hail was reduced to 3.1% in the protected areas, compared with a 19% loss in adjacent unprotected fields. In some areas, the loss was cut to a tenth of normal. Even better results would have been obtained, the Russians admit, had the operation been better planned. As it was, there were frequently shortages of shells, and firing had to be delayed at crucial moments to avoid hitting aircraft...
...members at a meeting held then failed to approve one of five points of policy about the planning implications of a tenth Harvard House which the HPC had itself approved in an earlier vote. The HPC had called upon the new subcommittee not to consider the option of expanding the size of Harvard College classes when Mather opened; HUC members favored a resolution asking the sub-committee to discuss the option of increasing class size to fill the House only in the larger context of educational policy and the philosophy of the House system...
...Harvard Policy Committee and the Harvard Undergraduate Council, the two autonomous units of student government at Harvard, may combine tonight on a joint resolution to the new sub-committee studying policy implications of the tenth House...