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Boston University Astronomy Professor Gerald Hawkins has a bone to pick with historians who list the seven wonders of the ancient world. It is not that they have picked the wrong wonders, only that their list is too short. Britain's Stonehenge, says the British-born scientist, is the eighth wonder-a remarkable achievement of primitive man. In a new book, Stonehenge Decoded (Doubleday; $5.95), he explains how he turned to a modern computer to unravel the 3,500-year-old mystery of Salisbury Plain. Stonehenge's long-kept secret, says Hawkins, is that its vast stone slabs...
...century's most original thinkers, Whitehead was a gentle, British-born mathematician and philosopher who died in 1947 at the age of 86, after teaching at Cambridge, the University of London and Harvard. In his newly published A Christian Natural Theology (Westminster; $6.50), Methodist John Cobb Jr. of the Southern California School of Theology hails Whitehead as the philosophical peer of Plato, Aristotle and Kant and argues that his complex thought provides a way "to restore the term 'God' to meaningful discourse in some real continuity with its historic...
...first case of surfer's knobs seen by Dr. Sheldon Swift at the Permanente Medical Group in Panorama City made a deep impression; the British-born dermatologist had never seen anything like them around the muddy Mersey, where he went to medical school. Dr. Swift reported in the A.M.A. Journal that the knobs were benign tumors, made up mainly of an overgrowth of the horny layer of the skin. They were not to be confused with the socially less acceptable housemaid's knee, which is a bursitis. Dr. Swift saw no reason for surgical removal of the knobs...
...Rosemary Harris, 34, has played Desdemona to Burton's Othello, Ophelia to O'Toole's Hamlet, Elena to Olivier's Dr. Astroff and Redgrave's Uncle Vanya. In the U.S., she played opposite Jason Robards in the 1958 Broadway production of The Disenchanted. The British-born, India-reared actress stars in War and Peace and Judith, plays Violet in Man and Superman at alternate performances, and she has left her mark. Her throaty, caressing voice purrs its way through her lush figure and emerges with girlish guilelessness from Natasha and passionate intensity from Judith...
...UNITED AUTO WORKERS: Walter Reuther, 57, has two capable subalterns: intellectual Leonard Woodcock, 54, chief of the union's G.M. bargaining unit, and British-born Douglas Fraser, 47, an affable bargainer who deals with Chrysler and American Motors...