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...Education, uncovered 15 wooden vases carved in geometrical designs-the first such find in history. Knowing that fresh air would decompose the wood, which had been preserved in fertile mud since the 8th or 6th century B.C., the archeologist rushed them 23 miles to Athens for a thorough preservative bath...
...escape for a while from the cares and worries of the world outside-but not for William Henry Mauldin, editorial cartoonist of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. In Mauldin's cauldron, the heat creates light-in the form of inspiration for his drawing board. The water of his bath is roiled with national and international crises, and in the rising steam swarm the wraithlike figures of politicians, statesmen and world leaders. While his skin turns lobster-red and he blisters his insides with coffee from a king-size cup, Cartoonist Bill Mauldin is hard at work...
...reassure the U.S. top brass, Pak named a U.S. favorite as new Premier in General Chang's place. He is retired Lieut. General "Tiger" Song Yo Chan, 43, who as army chief of staff in May, 1960, pressured old President Syngman Rhee into resigning without a blood bath, then held the rioting students at bay until the nation calmed down. Song retired soon thereafter, has been studying politics and economics at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Last month the junta generals called him back to South Korea to serve as the new regime's Defense Minister...
...long been the practice of wealthy U.S. museums and collectors to buy historic European buildings, then transport them beam and brick across the Atlantic. Last week the process was somewhat reversed; in Great Britain an American museum was open near the Regency resort town of Bath. Its purpose: to show the British just how their cousins lived from the landing of the Mayflower to the beginning of the present century...
...Bath's American Museum is a project born of pique. For years the museum's founders-British-born Antique Dealer John Judkyn and Manhattan Psychiatrist Dallas Pratt-have been spending summers in Britain, and each year found the British as dense about the U.S. as the year before. In 1956 Pratt set up the Halcyon Foundation to endow a museum, and Judkyn found the site. It was Bath's Claverton Manor, designed by George IV's architect, Sir Jeffry Wyatville...