People: Mar. 29, 1968

The Israelis have strict rules forbidding amateur archaeologists from poking around the digs and carting off whatever strikes their fancy. But who's to say no when the amateur happens to be Defense Minister Moshe Dayan, 52, hero of all Israel and avid collector of artifacts for his private backyard museum. So there he was again last week, burrowing into an ancient tomb at Azor, near Tel Aviv, and this dig almost ended in tragedy. Dayan was six feet down in a pit when the soft clay walls suddenly gave way, burying the general under their weight. Bystanders dug him out within a minute, rushed him to a hospital, where he was found to be suffering from two broken ribs, a fractured vertebra and possibly a damaged aorta. At week's end, though, doctors reported him out of danger and growling, "When do I get out of here?"

Men's plumages are changing so fast that the lads hardly have time to preen their feathers any more. Now it's the Gaucho look—or at least it is for Rudolf Nureyev, 30. Not that Rudi is all that wild about horses. It's just that he has this gas about things South American; so naturally that led to an Yves St. Laurent Argentine pony-skin jacket to set off a dashing pair of matching boots by Paris' Roger Vivier. Gaucho Rudi wears the getup whenever the mood strikes him, as with Dame Margot Fonteyn and Princess Margaret at a Knightsbridge mansion, where the Princess helped kick off a fund-raising campaign to provide new facilities for the Royal Academy of Dancing.

In a way it was typical that when Charles Lindbergh made his first public appearance in a decade, he chose one of the nation's farthest reaches. Lindy, now 66, was in Juneau to address the Alaska legislature on a topic touching him deeply: the need to conserve the state's wildlife. The Lone Eagle argued that Alaska should do away with bounties on wolves, coyotes and seals, and make it illegal for hunters to shoot from airplanes or trucks. "Alaska is one of the key areas of the world," said he. "But with extreme changes taking place, the people are in danger of losing the environment they inherited from all times past." The lawmakers gave him a standing ovation, and Lindy responded with a wave and a grin that, for a moment, bridged 41 years.

For seven years the royal palace in Oslo had been without a woman—ever since King Olav V's youngest daughter, Astrid, married a commoner. But now the King and Crown Prince Harold, 31, will no longer live in lonely masculine splendor. The King has consented to Harald's marriage to Sonja Har-aldsen, 30, the striking blonde daughter of an Oslo clothing-store manager whom Harald courted for ten years. Royalists were soon aflutter over the fact that Sonja, a commoner, will receive queenly rights when Harald ascends the throne. That issue hardly concerned the Prince. "For me," said he, "Sonja will just be my wife."