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...previous day, Owen and eleven other Members of Parliament had resigned from the Labor Party. When they formally constitute themselves as the Social Democrats within the next month, they will become the first significant national party to be formed in Britain since Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists in 1932. For Labor, it was the most dramatic defection since 1931, when Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald led a walkout in order to head a national government...
DIED. Marguerite Oswald, 73, mother of the presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, who bitterly contested the Warren Commission's conclusion that her son had acted alone in shooting John F. Kennedy in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963; of cancer; in Fort Worth, Texas. A loquacious, self-dramatizing woman, she once proclaimed: "If you research the life of Jesus Christ, you find that you never did hear anything more about the mother of Jesus after he was crucified...
...DIED. Oswald Ernald Mosley, 84, dashing, charismatic leader of the British Union of Fascists whose army of anti-Semitic Blackshirts fomented hatred in London during the 1930s; in Orsay, France. A brilliant but impatient thinker and a gifted orator, Sir Oswald (he inherited the title from his father, an English baronet) was elected to Parliament at age 22 as a Conservative, later became an independent, then a Socialist Laborite, and finally embraced the ideology of Mussolini and Hitler. Held in detention as a national security risk during World War II, he later exiled himself to a villa in France...
...maximum effect from a minimum number of words. Throughout these 14 pieces, the reader learns just how busy and varied Capote's life is. His range of acquaintances is not only vast but spooky. "I know Sirhan, and I knew Robert Kennedy, I knew Lee Harvey Oswald, and I knew Jack Kennedy," he says, explaining that he met Oswald in Moscow just after he defected...
...Lyndon," responded Sam, trying to be funny, "I had nothing to do with Oswald...