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Science Editor Jonathan Norton Leonard, who wrote this week's cover story on Nelson Glueck, considers himself something of an amateur Biblical scholar and regards the Bible as "an extraordinary record of ancient history as well as beautiful literature." This has long been Archaeologist Glueck's thesis, and his Biblical scholarship has often helped him locate sites in the Holy Land. One memento from Glueck that Leonard treasures is a piece of slag from King Solomon's copper mines, which Glueck rediscovered...
...archaeologist he leans heavily on a source that many an expert considers undependable: the Old Testament stories that to Nelson
...says, "and it's a little dangerous. A cliff overhangs the spring; anyone can shoot down." There are many ancient sites there from the time of Abraham and the Judean Kings, but "no one goes there now," Glueck says, "except a few Bedouins, the Egyptian infiltrators and an archaeologist like...
Died. Margaret Alice Murray, 100, Egyptologist and demonologist, a wispy spinster (4 ft. 6 in.) who in 1904 at Abydos on the Nile was the first woman archaeologist to conduct her own "digs," went tenting with Bedouins at 70, finally "retired" to lecture on sorcery in England, where she held listeners spellbound as she expounded her thesis that the Inquisitors were absolutely right, Joan of Arc was indeed a witch; in Welwyn, Hertfordshire...
...Korean standards, the opposition, though badly divided, was remarkably uninhibited. Large crowds rallied to hear Park's chief challenger, ex-President Yun Po Sun, an archaeologist who resigned ten months after Park seized power in 1961, and ex-Premier Huh Chung, a scholarly ex-journalist. They hit out at Park's arbitrary rule and the country's economic plight, openly revived an old charge that he had once flirted with Communism.* Park accused his foes of "McCarthyism...