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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...England scene (among his eleven books: The Garretson Chronicle and The Islands) and longtime professor of English at Boston University; of cancer; in Blue Hill, Me. A stylish lecturer who in spired thousands of students with his incisive and dry-humored dissections of American literature. Brace, though born on Long Island, developed a lifetime love affair with New England (and particularly Maine) that was reflected in the values that his life and novels extolled: duty, moderation, self-control and, above all, the enduring power of reason...
...with a Soviet actress; of cancer; in Jacksonville, Fla. Stationed in Moscow in 1945, Tate met and courted Film Star Zoya Fyodorova. Soviet authorities banished Tate and sent Fyodorova to a hard-labor camp for eight years. Not until 1963 did Tate learn that a daughter, Victoria, had been born of one of their last trysts. Finally in 1975, Victoria, now a film star herself, was granted a three-month exit visa to visit the U.S. Soon after a highly publicized meeting with her father, she married an American pilot and settled in Connecticut...
There was no doubt about who the teacher was. West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, as host and chairman, ran the show with typical decisiveness. Said a top U.S. official: "The man is a born leader." Participating in his second economic summit, the U.S. President was not the dominant partner...
...birth as a miracle of modern medicine, comparable to the first kidney and heart transplants. Theologians?and more than a few prominent scientists?sounded warnings about its disturbing moral, ethical and social implications. Others, made wary by the recent cloning hoax, remained unconvinced that the child about to be born was indeed the world's first baby conceived in a test tube...
...baby is born normal and healthy, they pointed out, it will give new hope to women who have been unable to conceive be cause of tubal difficulties. In the U.S. alone, as many as 10% of all married women who want to bear children cannot. Possibly a third of these are infertile because of blocked tubes that cannot be surgically repaired...