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...EGYPTOLOGISTS by Kingsley Amis and Robert Conquest. 245 pages. Random House...
Died. Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor, 90, chairman since 1954 of the National Geographic Society and editor until then of its magazine, an ardent conservationist, traveler and journalist, who spiked the once stuffily academic Geographic with handsome color spreads and eyewitness reports, including the first conquest of Mount Everest, thereby hiking circulation from 900 to 2,000,000 (now 4,500,000) at his retirement; of a stroke; in Baddeck, Nova Scotia...
...insistent urge toward national independence is the strongest force of today's world in which we live," he said. "History does not favor a single system or belief unless force is used to make it so. Six years ago, North Viet Nam decided on conquest; and from that day to this, soldiers and supplies have moved from North to South in a swelling stream-swallowing the remnants of revolution in aggression." The U.S. commitment in Viet Nam, he said, is based on the fact that "around the world are countries whose independence rests in large measure on confidence...
Physicist and Amateur Historian Harvey Einbinder declared in 1963 that it was just a gory story to frighten voters with, an atrocity invented by the British to justify their conquest of Bengal. The British bristled, and this brief but masterly report by a correspondent for the London Daily Mail assures any doubters that the atrocity actually occurred. It occurred, in fact, at the anticlimax of a comedy of horrors scarcely paralleled in British history...
Another decisive victory was gained las night in the hockey league when previously undefeated Leverett and Lowell met on the ice in Watson Rink, and Leverett emerged victorious. The 2-0 conquest put Leverett House undisputedly into first place, while Lowell House sunk into a second place tie with Eliot...