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...married to Dr. Roberto ("Tito") Arias, 46, former Panamanian Ambassador to Britain. Arias, who was shot by a political enemy in Panama last June, is paralyzed from the neck down, and Margot spends three hours on the train every day in order to visit him in the hospital in Buckingham shire, where he is being treated...
...Yale's Don Schollander, 18: the 200-yd. freestyle in the national A.A.U. men's swimming championships at New Haven: in an American record time of 1 min. 41.7 sec., to continue his winning ways after collecting four gold medals at the Tokyo Olympics. Another teenager, Greg Buckingham, upset Veteran Roy Saari in the 400-yd. individual medley, but Saari consoled himself with a first in the 1,650-yd. freestyle...
Died. William Buckingham, 62, research engineer for Western Union Telegraph Co., who in 1961 developed the U.S. Nuclear Bomb Warning System, which is installed in 99 target areas and will, through supersensitive photoelectric devices, instantly pick up the first heat and light waves from a nuclear explosion, thus alerting military commanders moments before it and all other communication systems are knocked out; of cancer; in Southampton...
...Spanish Steps. A shy, pale, hulking figure, "Bernie" Lonergan is a much-storied underground legend among Catholic intellectuals. Born in Buckingham, Quebec, near the Ontario border, he decided to enter the Jesuits at 17, studied at his society's Heythrop College near Oxford and at Rome's Pontifical Gregorian University. He spent 13 years teaching theology at Jesuit seminaries in Canada before moving to "the Greg" in 1953. There he follows a life as precisely organized as his thought. He teaches or writes from 8 until lunch, and after his siesta takes an hour-long walk that never...
...fill six castles and grow into the most valuable private collection in the world. From its 50 Canalettos to its 200 Da Vinci draw ings, the crown's choice is still an unnationalized treasure. The bulk, of which some 172 works are now on public view in Buckingham Palace's Queen's Gallery, bespeaks, above all, the influence of the Italian Renaissance...