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Jupiter & Zeus. Continental Army Command's General Willard G. Wyman contributed a stinging attack against the Defense Department's "arbitrary," "rigid" and "dangerous" ruling that Army missiles must be limited to 200 miles ground to ground and 100 miles ground to air (TIME, Dec. 10). Army Secretary Wilber M. Brucker decorated the Redstone Arsenal's most famous missile scientist, ex-German Missileman Wernher von Braun, boosted the Army's claim that its 1,500-mile missile Jupiter is superior to the rival Air Force Thor and is in fact "the most advanced guided missile yet produced...
Giraudoux's play, based on the Greek legend of Zeus' rape of Alcmene, wife of Amphitryon, illustrates that neither the wiles of men nor the caprices of gods are effective against the constancy of devotion of a wife (Alkmena.) Jupiter attempts to rape Alkmena but discovers he must reckon with a woman far too intelligent to be led astray by passion...
Delphi was once one of the spiritual centers of the Western world. In this rocky glen beneath Mount Parnassus, 100 miles northwest of Athens, stood the sacred stone called Omphalos-the navel of the earth, where two eagles started by Zeus from opposite edges of creation had met. Close to the great temple of Apollo, which housed the storied oracle and its fume-drugged priestess, each city-state of ancient Greece maintained its own temple. Last week the Greek government announced plans to turn Delphi into a modern center for the spiritual gathering of nations, invited the 15 nations comprising...
...line of Danaus, whose daughters drifted onto that island many years ago. And Danaus, as most everybody knows, was one of the first inhabitants of that land now called Greece to set up with a family name. And Greek family names, as some people do not know, begin with Zeus. It seems hardly necessary to trace the ancestry of Zeus. There rests the case for the beard ancestry...
...were enmeshed in Saul's downfall. But above them all towers brooding Saul, a complex, courageous, often noble man, whose tragic flaw carries him ineluctably through doubt and guilt to self-destruction under the eye of a Jehovah not far removed, in time or temper, from Sophocles' Zeus...