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...Huxley, the great biologist and proselytizer of Darwin's theories of evolution, was his grandfather. Poet Matthew Arnold, the apostle of sweetness and light, was his mother's uncle. On one side, the traditions of scientific humanism; on the other, the melancholy ironist and culture critic who foreshadowed his grandnephew's own tussles with cynicism and faith. Aldous was a natural-born two-culture man at exactly the time when the wedges of agnosticism and technological specialization had just driven those cultures apart. He would probably have been a scientist like his brother Julian had not an eye infection...
...GEORGIA. Democrat Sam Nunn, 34, a grandnephew of Carl Vinson, who served for 50 years in the House, hopes to win a Georgia Senate seat himself by rekindling ancient urban-rural differences. Whether Nunn, a farmer, lawyer, state legislator and ex-basketball star from middle Georgia, can succeed may depend partly on the popularity of Richard Nixon among traditional rural Democrats and on a well-mounted G.O.P. campaign...
...Tbilisians, who were out to welcome their second most famous native son (after Stalin). Though born in Leningrad (in 1904), Balanchine comes from Georgian stock. Among those on hand to greet him was his brother Andrei Balanchivadze, 66, a prominent if somewhat outdated composer, a three-year-old grandnephew, also named Andrei, and scores of other Georgians claiming kinship and free tickets...
Died. Joseph Fielding Smith, 95, tenth president and "prophet, seer and revelator" of the 3,000,000-member Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; in Salt Lake City. Son of the Mormons' sixth president and grandnephew of its martyred founder, Smith rose to the presidency two years ago because of his seniority on the governing Council of the Twelve. The author of a score of books on church history and policy, he was a leader of conservative cut and a stern opponent of doctrinal changes. Smith's successor will be Harold Bingham...
...them is Henry Adams, the great-grandnephew of the author of Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres. Instead of writing about stained glass, the most recent Adams to graduate from Harvard intends to go into the craft itself, making skylights and glass sections for geodesic domes.* Ross Coppelman, a Harvard '70 English major, is making a variable but decent enough living...