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DIED. Sir Cecil Beaton, 76, English photographer, designer and arbiter of elegance; of a heart attack; in Broad Chalke, England. A tall, epicene dandy whose sartorial trademarks were silk scarves and broad-brimmed hats, Beaton was best known professionally for his portraits of the British royal family and the dazzling costumes and sets he created for operas, ballets, Broadway (My Fair Lady, Coco) and films (Gigi). Offstage he was celebrated for his frolics with the famous, including a 1940s dalliance with Greta Garbo. (Said she: "He was the only man I ever allowed to touch my vertebrae.") What...
...comedy? A key element of humor is surprise; jokes are funniest when they sneak up on the audience out of nowhere. In big-budget film making, the opportunities for comic am bush quickly disappear. Every joke announces itself in deafening stereo sound. Every pratfall is as momentous as Cecil B. DeMille's parting of the, Red Sea. Punch lines cannot be thrown away, but are instead hurled like thunderbolts...
...Says John Ryther, another Woods Hole biologist: "I don't believe drilling will cause mass mortalities of fish." The Government maintains that the leases cover no spawning grounds on Georges Bank, and that the prevailing currents could easily sweep an oil slick to sea. Secretary of the Interior Cecil Andrus notes that of 292 million bbl. of oil produced last year from off-shore U.S. wells, only two spills exceeded 50 bbl., the largest losing only 135 bbl. Besides, the oil revenues that could be realized even from a small reserve at Georges Bank are hard to turn down...
...native blacks would have cared had not a rich diamond pipe been found at Kimberley in the Orange Free State and an immense stratum of gold at Witwatersrand ("the Rand") in the Transvaal. As largely British "Outlanders" poured into the Rand to mine the gold, Empire Builder Cecil Rhodes plotted an uprising against Transvaal President Paul Kruger. But a premature raid tipped Rhodes' hand, and the Boers armed...
...signed with a real agent. Tony Pennachia--who represents Jim Rice and Cecil Cooper among others--to negotiate with the team that drafts him in January. About the Harvard varsity, of which he is co-captain elect, Mike says, "I did and do feel bad about not playing, but I think they understand my reasons." Coach Alex Nahigian certainly does, but he also understands Stenhouse's absence will be a big loss to this year's squad. "You lose a hitter of Mike's caliber and it's going to hurt," he says. "We'll do our best without...