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Golf & Astronauts. Though horse racing still accounts for 90% of Ladbroke's take, Stein has eagerly diversified. He now books greyhound racing and football, began posting odds on golf in the early '60s when Arnold Palmer made the pro game popular in England. In 1963, he pioneered the making of book on elections. Current special: 10-to-l odds on an astronaut's landing on the moon next year...
Crystalline Visions. Bellotto learned his trade in his uncle's Venetian studio. Canaletto was then one of the most illustrious and successful artists in Europe, leader of the school whose detailed panoramas of Venetian fiestas and parades hung in castles and mansions from Italy to England. In his youth,Bel-lotto aped his uncle's style and signed his canvases "Bernardo Bellotto Canaletto," a quirk that has caused confusion among collectors ever since. But as he matured, he developed a colder, moodier, darker technique...
Died. Sir John Cockcroft, 70, dean of British nuclear physicists; of a heart attack; in Cambridge, England. In 1932, Cockcroft and his research partner, E.T.S. Walton, were the first to release atomic energy by splitting the atom with proton "bullets" in a linear accelerator instead of using naturally radioactive particles, the previous technique. That breakthrough led to the development of the atom bomb anc won the partners the Nobel Prize fo Physics in 1951. By then, Sir John was director of the Harwell atomic research center, pointing Britain's nuclear capability toward peaceful applica tions, including her first nuclear...
After 191 year s of confederation, New England is finally getting a "free press...
...first 6000 issues of "The New England Free Press" are being printed today. They will appear on Cambridge newstands early next week...