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...arboretum was one of four Massachusetts sites honored as National Landmarks. Another was the Asa Gray House, built in 1807 on Garden St. in Cambridge to house Harvard's famous botany professor. It was to Gray, a friend and supporter of Charles Darwin, that Darwin's theory of evolution was first outlined...
...Government projects benefit individual states, the people there are all for the project-but if the project is not in their own state, they are against it. Now that the U.S. is trying to be a little conservative, just listen to these same people bitch and holler! DARWIN B. HILL Roscommon, Mich...
Married. George Pember Darwin, 36, researcher for a London electronics company, great-grandson of Evolutionist Charles Darwin; and Angela Huxley, 24, niece of the late Author Aldous and great-granddaughter of Biologist Thomas Huxley, foremost champion of Darwin's The Origin of Species; in an Anglican ceremony; in London...
...grease monkeys, must farm out repairs to private mechanics. Australia's combat fleet consists of 14 antiquated vessels-the aircraft carrier Melbourne, three destroyers (there were four until the Melbourne accidentally sliced one in half last February), and a handful of frigates and minesweepers. The northern port of Darwin is garrisoned by only 150 troops; its coastal guns have been dismantled and sold to Japan as scrap; Darwin has no antiaircraft batteries, and until last month the single radar station operated from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mondays through Fridays only...
...wondered as a boy, "do we always know someone everywhere?" The answer was simple. Rupert Brooke grew up among Top People in an era when no other kind counted in England. As a kid he built sandcastles with Virginia Woolf. Other adoring contemporaries included Darwin's granddaughters, Keyneses, Stracheys and most of the other young Britons who were to leave their mark on the times. As the late Christopher Hassall makes clear in this massive, kindly biography, Rupert Brooke had everything: chirm, grace, Grecian good looks, precocious brilliance. That was his tragedy. For Rupert, everything from schoolboy success...