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Died. The Rev. Cyril Richardson, 67, specialist in early Christian literature and history, and a longtime advocate of the ordination of women; following a heart attack; in Manhattan. An Episcopalian, Richardson was a member of the faculty of New York City's Union Theological Seminary from 1934 to 1974. As early as 1951 he argued that the true Christian society was one in which male and female were "complementary to each other" and "equal in the sense that neither has priority...
...reopened after a $6.4 million, five-month crash reconstruction job. Said Fisher: "I hope they like it, because I haven't enough money to build another." No worry. The sound of success could be heard both inside and outside the hall. The man responsible was Master Acoustician Cyril M. Harris, 59, who could already boast of the fine sound at the Metropolitan Opera, Washington's (B.C.) Kennedy Center and, most spectacular of all, the two-year-old Orchestra Hall in Minneapolis. Conductor Pierre Boulez was pleased because the 110 men and women of the New York Philharmonic...
...Sunday Times of London reported last week that the findings of Sir Cyril Burt, who died in 1971, were "sometimes impossibly constant" and quoted several scientists who said Burt's results should not come out exactly the same over several experiments...
Still, the three deaths at the same Pittsburgh clinic on the same day were hard to explain by any reckoning. Though other Pennsylvania health authorities disputed him, Allegheny County Coroner Cyril Wecht speculated that the shots might have been improperly injected into a vein (and thus directly into the blood) rather than into muscle tissue, possibly accelerating any adverse reactions. Even Dr. David Sencer, director of Atlanta's Center for Disease Control (CDC), which is directing the nationwide inoculation program, acknowledged that while he felt the Pittsburgh deaths were probably coincidences, "we can't sit back and assume...
...circulated before, and in 1971, with Scotland Yard's help, they were privately investigated by Liberal Party elders. Scott was questioned about his accusations and collapsed under crossexamination. The Liberal leaders then accepted Thorpe's denial. When Scott trumpeted his story this year, former Liberal Chief Whip Cyril Smith immediately pronounced it "ludicrous." But next day Thorpe's credibility suffered a major jolt when his longtime friend Peter Bessell, a former Liberal M.P. who moved to the U.S. in 1974 following a financial scrape in Britain, admitted that he had paid Scott a "retainer...