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...nine centuries, since William the Conqueror won the Battle of Hastings, the English Channel has stood as the "moat defensive'' between Britain and her foes, between the "blessed plot" and the "envy of less happier lands." Today, Paris-London jets pass over the Channel tides in three minutes; nuclear missiles would blast across in as many seconds. The balance of envy has changed. Increasingly prosperous Britons, who swarm across to the Continent by the thousands each summer, return with European notions of comfort, elegance and efficiency that have breached England's insularity more surely than any invader...
...Youth Physical Fitness conference in Washington, Interior Secretary Stewart L. Udall, 42, recent conqueror (along with some 500,000 others last year) of Japan's Mount Fuji, professed himself shocked at America's scandalous flab surplus. "I was out in a farm state* a few days ago, and I found that the women generally had a firmer grip than the men in a handshake," said Udall, who need not worry about the crunch in his own clasp. "I think that is a commentary on conditions today." Something had to give before Marilyn Monroe, 35, could snuggle into...
...dreaded Roman Conqueror Lucius Cornelius Sulla stormed and looted Athens. Sulla was perhaps the leading looter of ancient times, sending to Rome thousands of works of art from all over the Greek world. Archaeologist Erythmios Mastrokostas, who bossed the Piraeus dig, thinks that the statue was part of Sulla's booty already crated for loading on one of his ships. Very likely a fire in the waterfront warehouse reduced its packing material to black ashes. In the confusion of war, no one noticed the statues. Weeds grew high, rubbish accumulated, and when Piraeus was rebuilt, a street ran over...
...victory over De Pauw must rank as one of the Crimson's best performances in many a year. The Indiana school had just returned from a trip to the West Coast, where it lost by only small margins to national powers USC and UCLA. Previously, DePauw, had defeated Butler, conqueror of a very strong Bradley team...
...also filled his diary with admonitory phrases that echo the books on guerrilla fighting by Red China's Mao Tse-tung and North Viet Nam's able General Giap, conqueror of Dienbienphu: "Be extremely friendly with local comrades and very parsimonious with the food supply they give us . . . Respect the local population and never touch their property . . . Observe absolute secrecy and discipline . . . Only attack when victory is certain...