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...puzzling blank in Egyptology. Little of its art has survived; its pyramids were jerry-built and unprepossessing; the surviving clues to its history are so meager that few of its pharaohs can even be identified. One who can be was King Ny-user-ra, who ruled from about 2370 to 2360 B.C. Few statues of Ny-user-ra were known; one of them was in the Cairo Museum. It gave no hint of his appearance, since head and torso were missing, but it was certainly he, because his name was carved on the granite base beneath the striding legs...
...receiving end may look forward to a Spiro Agnew wastebasket, with decorations commemorating his crowning victories on the golf course and tennis court. A windup Richard Nixon box looks something like a toaster and contains a loose-jointed figure in the presidential image that dances to a tinkly Ta-Ra-Ra-Boom-De-Ay. Strangely silent, however, is the forthcoming Martha Mitchell doll, authorized by the Attorney General's wife herself...
...projected maisons. But Nicole, a redhead who now operates out of a Simca sedan in the Madeleine district, approves. "I have no objection to working in a municipal bordello, on the condition that pimps don't run it." But Valerie, based in a bar near the Opéra, has reservations: "I don't want any fonctionnaire telling me what hours to work and who to go to bed with...
After sailing for 57 days in a 40-ft. reed raft resembling a basket, Thor Heyerdahl and his seven-man international crew reached the Caribbean island of Barbados, 3,200 miles across the Atlantic from their point of departure on the Moroccan coast. Happy to have demonstrated with Ra II (Ra I was abandoned last year 600 miles from Barbados) that the ancient Egyptians, who sailed such papyrus craft, could have discovered America 40 centuries ago, Heyerdahl proudly noted that his vessel had survived its journey intact. Ra II will eventually be installed in an Oslo museum alongside an earlier...
...Putting knowledge first" may have lost us a political activist, but it has given us a brilliant and charming sociologist, a species far too ra?e in either the United States or France...