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...NEWS ENCORE (NBC, 6:30-7:30 p.m.). Naturalist-Author Joseph Wood Krutch is the guide for a trip through the Grand Canyon starting at the rim, taking a ride down the Colorado River rapids and stopping for a visit with the Havasupai Indians. Repeat...
...last six decades have been killed in military action alone, and the hairy thumb of violence has not lost its itch. Can man learn, before it is too late, to control the Cain in his constitution? Only if he understands the brute, says Austria's celebrated Naturalist Konrad Lorenz (King Solomon's Ring, Man Meets Dog). But the brute, he hastens to add, cannot finally be understood in psychiatric terms because man is too small a measure for such things. Aggression is as old as the amoeba, and in the violent process of evolution many species have resolved...
...Manhattan's Parke-Bernet Galleries, a first edition of John James Audubon's The Birds of America went for $60,000. The four-volume "Elephant Folio," so called for its outsize format, contains 435 plates of U.S. fowl by the naturalist engraver. Only 129 sets are known to exist. The price nearly doubled the last sale of Audubon's Ele phant, which went in 1959 for $36,400. ¶At London's Christie's auction house, a 241-piece dinner service of 18th century tobacco-leaf Chinese porcelain sold for $97,000. Made under...
Died. Lewis Stiles Gannett, 74, naturalist, author (Young China) and for 25 years book reviewer of the New York Herald Tribune, who reported on 7,500 books, wrote 6,000 columns on everything from beards to katydids, once mused that "the ideal book reviewer is a superficial sort of fellow"; of leukemia; in Sharon, Conn...
...point. The Sandpiper, for example, raised a question about religion: Was there thematic justification for making Richard Burton an Episcopal priest rather than a layman? The consensus was yes, but the Legion gave the movie a disapproving B because the Christian (Burton) seems to lose out morally to the naturalist (Elizabeth Taylor...