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Paulin, a lecturer at Hertford College, Oxford, was slated to deliver the annual Morris Gray Lecture tonight because of his literary accomplishments and stature as a poet, Buell wrote...
...Paulin, a Northern Irish poet and lecturer at Hertford College, Oxford, was to deliver the annual Morris Gray Lecture tomorrow evening...
DIED. JIM ("CATFISH") HUNTER, 53, Hall of Fame pitcher; of Lou Gehrig's disease; in Hertford, N.C. During his 15-year career with the Oakland A's and the New York Yankees, Hunter won five World Series, pitched a perfect game, won a Cy Young Award and became the first multimillion-dollar player when he declared free agency in 1974. "He taught us how to win," said his onetime boss George Steinbrenner...
...decision to make the race in Crosby had been a bold gamble. Williams had lost her own Labor seat in Hertford and Stevenage in the Tory sweep of May 1979, and she needed desperately to get back into Parliament. But her daring choice of Crosby, a traditionally safe Tory seat, brought delegates at the party's first annual conference in October to their feet, cheering. Explained Williams confidently: "We have to take impossible risks." She promptly began to walk through every neighborhood and ring doorbells in every corner of the three-ward Crosby district, which has a population ranging...
Ardor is a trait that has revealed itself since his days as an undergraduate. After two years spent as a Marshall scholar at Hertford College, he returned to Harvard and became an official at the fledgling Institute of Politics while working on his Ph.D. thesis, eventually published as The Essence of Decision. In 1966, he acted as a decoy when Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara, the first IOP "honorary associate," was beseiged by 700 angry anti-war demonstrators--the first indication that the war would not let the University rest in peace...