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Died. Claude Rains, 76, versatile British-born actor who moved from the London stage to Hollywood's screen at 42, first as the malevolent, disembodied voice in The Invisible Man, followed by 55 other roles, from the corrupt French cop in Casablanca (1942) to the suave British diplomat in Lawrence of Arabia (1962), winning four Academy Award nominations; of an intestinal hemorrhage; in Laconia...
This is how our Saigon bureau's Robin Mannock summed up his feelings after the event. Reporting for this week's cover story on the Negro in Viet Nam, British-born Correspondent Mannock, 36, had gone out on a long-range patrol with Sergeant Glide Brown and, as described in the opening passages of our story, had landed in the midst of the Viet Cong...
...someone else, they're not going to give you the money," explains one Harvard Ph.D. candidate. For some professors, the pursuit of project money is almost a full-time career in itself. "There is a kind of hustle here, like in the business world," contends John Hodges, a British-born Harvard graduate student in the history of science, "and sometimes intellectual contemplation is fitted in between phone calls to Washington." Harvard Graduate Student Steve Barney claims that grants are used "as a bonus for the faculty-like an expense account in business," cites travel grants to libraries, despite...
...bound by that finding, British-born Judge Harold G. Platt, a member of Tanzania's High Court, spent seven days reviewing the evidence and making up his mind, before announcing his rather qualified agreement...
...eerie screech of water birds sounded through the open-ended courtroom in Mwanza, a dusty little Tanzanian town on the shore of Lake Victoria. Solemn in his red robes and white wig, British-born Judge Harold Platt, a member of Tanzania's High Court, stepped up to the bench. Ededem Effiwatt, the ponderous, coal-black prosecutor, made ready to represent the state. And an unarmed African policeman stood guard by the prisoner in the dock. Everywhere he looked, Peace Corpsman Bill Haywood Kinsey, 24, a North Carolinian who had been charged with the murder of his wife, was reminded...