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...Scholar-Adventurer-Rabbi Nelson Glueck, 63, archaeology is less a matter of digging than it is of discerning. It is less large projects of reconstruction than it is large efforts of imagination and even larger exercises of scholarship. It is a provocative amalgam of insight and adventure. It is the act of finding an inch-long fragment of pottery on the dull grey desert, and it is the art of seeing a whole camp site in the broken shard. It is the ability to hold that relic in the hand and hear in the mind's ear an echo...
Sino-Marxist Amalgam. With no formal university education, Ching-kuo commands little loyalty among Nationalist China's intellectuals, and his nonconformist methods irritate the top politicians of the Kuomintang. He is backed by his dashing half brother, Major General Chiang Wei-kuo, 47. As minister without portfolio in the Cabinet and special adviser to the President, Ching-kuo works closely with his father. Another source of strength is Ching-kuo's 100,000-man Youth Corps, and his veto power over promotions in the army gives him enormous influence with junior officers...
...with an hour's practice in Chinese calligraphy and painting, and continues in his office until midnight. He likes hiking in the mountains, but since suffering from mild diabetes has had to forgo convivial drinking-mostly vodka. One old friend sees Ching-kuo as "an amalgam of the Chinese tradition and Marxist ideas." What strikes most observers is his strange combination of shyness and power. A Chinese friend perhaps put it best when he said, "Look at his hands-there's the man: coarse, tough, patient...
Irvine Ranch is the biggest private development project in the world?93,000 acres of open land adjoining the southern edge of sprawling Los Angeles. Originally this vast tract was an amalgam of three Spanish land grants put together in the 1880s by a group of San Francisco investors, headed by Merchant James Irvine. Ever since, it has been kept intact, used, where it was used at all, mainly as agricultural land and citrus groves. In recent years, its disposal has been the subject of considerable squabbling among the heirs. They finally agreed to have it planned as a regional...
...Dinh Nhu, 52, functions as political counselor and theoretician for President Diem. From his soundproofed palace office, surrounded by books and stuffed animal heads, he tirelessly preaches the merits of "personalism," an abstruse amalgam of Confucianism, autocracy and Catholic morality that Diem calls his "formula" for government. Nhu controls the secret police and advises Diem on army promotions, government appointments and business contracts. On the side he runs the Revolutionary Labor Party, whose 70,000 members throughout the nation spend most of their time informing the police about their neighbors...