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Ruled by the God Apollo's golden mean
Seymour-Smith spares readers another torturous slog through the Great Dionysus-Apollo Rift. Instead, he concentrates productively on Graves' leading partner in Goddess worship, Poet Laura Riding, who lived with him from 1926 to 1939. The couple never exchanged marriage vows and after a brief time even stopped sleeping together. The relationship began in London with the blessing of Graves' first wife, Nancy Nicholson, who bore the poet four children but refused to accept his name...
...Bridget Steams (Laura Brown, Robin Balducci) 8:58. UNH, Balducci (steams) 2:21; UNH, Kip porter (Brown) 8:07; H. Diana Hurley (Jennifer While) 4:51; UNH, Portar (Loria Hutchinson, Lauran Apollo) 6:33; UNH, Tarry Sirack (unassisled) 9:31; UNH, Cheryl Calder (Sara McKay, Debble Arey...
DIED. John L. Swigert Jr., 51, plucky, earnest Apollo 13 astronaut, who was due to be sworn in this week as a Republican Congressman from Colorado; of lung and bone-marrow cancer; in Washington, D.C. Chosen as a replacement one day before unlucky 13's launching in 1970, the civilian astronaut coolly announced, when an oxygen tank exploded, "Houston, we've got a problem," then initiated emergency procedures he had helped develop. Turning to politics, he spent most of his life savings in an unsuccessful bid for a senatorial nomination in 1978, but came back last year...
...last week took place at the site of one model program. Set in 145 rolling acres in Decatur, Ga., the Fernbank Science Center boasts a 65-acre nature forest, a 500-seat planetarium, a collection of dinosaurs and a 36-in. reflector telescope that has been used to track Apollo space missions. Students from all over the surrounding DeKalb County school district use the facility. Each quarter, for example, 60 ninth-graders are bused in for a nine-week program in which they study math, physics, seismology, meteorology and chemistry for five hours...