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...home to South Africa, where her parents were in the process of separating. She announced she was giving up international competition, but soon changed her mind and in December returned to the European circuit. Some old foes were waiting. In the midst of a February cross-country race in Birkenhead, England, two antiapartheid demonstrators rushed into her path, forcing her to drop out. A month later she won the world cross-country championship in Lisbon by a stunning 23 sec. but raced erratically after that...
AUTHOR: MUSIC BY JELLY ROLL MORTON; LYRICS BY SUSAN BIRKENHEAD; BOOK BY GEORGE C. WOLFE...
...impressive record indicated the qualifications of at least a full professor, if not a demi-goddess, as she is viewed by some of her more devoted disciples. At forty-four, Dr. Shklar boasts a B.A. and M.A. from McGill University, a Ph.D. (1955) from Harvard, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Birkenhead Prize from the American Political Science Association, membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a vice presidency of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy, and four universally respected books on political theory and intellectual history...
...Betrayed a Generation, by three Sunday Times reporters who followed Philby's tracks for nearly a year, going back to examine his strained relations with his father (an explorer and Arabic scholar) and his record at Westminster public school and Cambridge. Author Cyril Connolly, the Earl of Birkenhead and a host of other critics reviewed the book by launching scathing philippics on Philby, but most scathing of all was the preface to the book itself (which will appear this month as a Book-of-the-Month Club selection in the U.S.). Written by Novelist John le Carr...
...Runners-up: Britain's Mersey Tunnel joining Liverpool and Birkenhead (1934), Japan's Kan-mon Tunnel between the islands of Honshu and Kyushu (1958), both slightly over two miles long...