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ANIMALS IN MIGRATION by Robert T. Orr. 303 pages. Macmillan...
Died. Rear Admiral Donald B. Mac-Millan, 95, veteran Arctic explorer, anthropologist, ethnologist, geographer and naturalist; in Provincetown, Mass. Mac-Millan's first voyage to the Arctic was with Robert E. Peary on his historic discovery of the North Pole in 1908-09, and the experience so moved MacMillan that he returned 29 times over the next half-century. He crisscrossed the polar region by dog sled, snowmobile and airplane, and sailed into the ice aboard his sturdy schooner Bowdoin. All the while, he made vast contributions to the world's knowledge of Eskimos, glacial movements, polar flora...
DIARY OF A MAN IN DESPAIR by Friedrich Percyval Reck-Malleczewen. 219 pages. Macmillan...
INSIDE THE THIRD REICH: MEMOIRS by Albert Speer. 596 pages. Macmillan...
...Heath won a seat in the House of Commons by a mere 133 votes. A few years later, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan chose him as a junior minister and confidant because he felt that Heath knew more than anyone else about the party's affairs in Commons. During Britain's first unsuccessful negotiations to enter the Common Market, Heath led the delegation; later he became President of the Board of Trade, a Cabinet-level post. When Sir Alec Douglas-Home stepped aside as leader of the Opposition after his 1964 loss to Harold Wilson, Heath saw his opportunity...