Word: valleys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...island three days' sail down the Persian Gulf. Merchants from Ur traded there, and clay-written records tell that they brought woolen goods, returning with cargoes of copper, ivory and gold. This suggests that Dilmun acted as middleman between Mesopotamia and the civilization of the Indus Valley in Pakistan. In both places have been found a few peculiar, disk-shaped stone seals. Since most Mesopotamian seals are cylindrical and Indus seals are square, archaeologists have long speculated that the disk-shaped seals were made in Dilmun, the in-between place...
...this took three hours. Over a sandwich and coffee at his desk, Riesel listened again while Miriam read aloud the accumulated story notes. Then he wrote his column, from time to time asking help: "Read me the citation in the Kefauver report ... I want exact figures on the Sun Valley land deal." It took him one hour and 3^ triple-spaced typewritten pages, each full page breaking neatly with a finished paragraph...
...deals with important things-the changing seasons, the magical qualities of visiting uncles and spinster neighbors, the insatiable appetite boys have for berries picked in the noonday heat. Author Lee knows that his book has an almost archaic aspect. Not until the end do autos appear in the valley, and one uncle takes on the stature of a hero by becoming a bus driver. The language is always charming and often poetic, but what is most remarkable about these childhood memoirs is the total lack of sentimentality. The Edge of Day is a rarity among books: a simple story that...
Tryout. In Sun Valley, Calif., Herbert LaFrance, 61, took an overdose of sleeping pills, twice rammed his car into power poles, walked barefoot on the fallen live wires, survived, told police: "I still want to kill myself; I don't know...
Special Tonight (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). An adaptation of Marcia Davenport's novel, The Valley of Decision...