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Defense-related research is a boom business on American campuses in these days of wine and silos. At Harvard, men and women work on all kinds of assignments. They are all brilliant, and most of them are moral, or so they think. But they muck around their labs with Air...
DIED. John Passmore Widgery, 70, Britain's Lord Chief Justice from 1971 until his retirement last year; in London. An incisive debater with a formidable grasp of complicated issues, Widgery led a controversial inquiry that absolved the British army of gross misconduct in the 1972 shooting of 13 Roman...
Naturally, the sounds of an upstaged plot line can scarcely be heard in this debater's Valhalla. Tarleton's daughter Hypatia (Jeanne Ruskin) is engaged to a simp named Bentley Summerhays (Keith McDermott), but she is restive and parched for adventure-which drops out of the sky when...
Without the distracting presence of cameras, Fallaci stress-tests the people she interviews. Her method makes most interviews on American television seem tepid. Only William F. Buckley Jr., with the practiced assurance of a Catholic debater, similarly confronts his subjects as an equal in discourse (and sometimes barely conceals his...
Others on the left would prefer Michael Foot, 67, a fidgety, white-maned journalist who was first elected to Parliament in 1945. Foot, a brilliant parliamentary debater, is personally popular and thus might be acceptable as a caretaker until Labor's electoral college can get organized. Another declared candidate...