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Jungle Gods. The diplomatic approach has its uses for archeologists too. In 1945, Giles Greville Healey, archeologist for the United Fruit Co., struggled on foot and muleback into the ruin-haunted jungle of Mexico's state of Chiapas. His assignment: to study the Lacandon Indians, thought to be the last remnant of the fabulous Mayas. The Lacandones still speak a Maya dialect, but have relapsed into shy and gentle savagery...
...Roosevelt, who sent MacVeagh to Athens as Minister Plenipotentiary in 1933. MacVeagh followed the presentation of his credentials with a speech in classical Greek which few of his hearers understood but all applauded. Since then he has learned modern Greek, which is less euphonious but more useful. An amateur archeologist, he has scrabbled under the ruins of the Acropolis for the broken dishes of pre-Christian housewives...
Between the implacable and inept extremes are Greece's tragically feeble centrists, chief among them Liberal Themistocles Sophoulis, 86, a former archeologist who has proved vacillating despite his deceptively brisk voice and snapping black eyes (Greek cartoonists usually picture him rushing off to the men's room), and Themistocles Venizelos, bridge-playing, insignificant son of Eleutherios Venizelos, Greece's last first-rate politician (he was forced to resign in 1935. died...
Young Egypt. Last November, Dr. Walter Bryan Emery, British archeologist in the service of the Egyptian Department of Antiquities, climbed a desert bluff at Sakkara within sight of the pyramids of Giza. Below lay the fertile checkerboard fields of the flat Nile valley. A few miles away peasants grazed their goats among the jumbled ruins of Memphis, first capital of Egypt...
William Bell Dinsmoor '06, professor of Archaeology at Columbia and foremost Greek archeologist in America, will give an illustrated lecture on "Athens: From Democracy to Empire," at 8 o'clock tonight in New Lecture hall. The lecture will be open to the public...