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...suffered in July 1916 during the Battle of the Somme in France were serious but not fatal. When the time finally came, last week, for obituaries in earnest, Graves had lived for an additional 69 years. The man who might have been remembered, along with Rupert Brooke and Wilfred Owen, as a bright young British poet snuffed out by war instead hammered himself into a cranky colossus of 20th century literature. His legacy, dispersed through some 140 books and decades of arguments and controversy, should take years to evaluate. The impression that several eras died along with Graves is immediate...
Jurors also questioned the methods apparently used to extract confessions from the defendants. Gwynfor Owen, 22, a Royal Air Force senior aircraftsman, told his parents that he admitted to espionage only after being informed that they too would be arrested. Christopher Payne, 26, another R.A.F. defendant, claimed that he was denied use of the bathroom for twelve hours at a time and made to shave three or four times a day until his face bled. The Thatcher government has promised an independent inquiry into the interrogations. But there was no escaping the conclusion that after many embarrassments over porousness...
...magazine, co-edited by Robert Tucker and Owen Harries, has a press run of 5,000. But Executive Editor Tod Lindberg predicts circulation will reach 12,000 within two years. The nonprofit magazine is supported by several conservative groups, including the John Olin Foundation, which contributed $600,000. Kristol is already optimistic enough about the journal's potential influence to label it part of a new "trinity," along with Foreign Affairs (circ. 90,000) and Foreign Policy...
Nautical Exhibits at MIT: George Owen '94: Yacht Designer Currier and Ives Prints, Hart Nautical Galleries, 77 Mass. Ave., All Days, 9 am-10 pm, ongoing...
...lecture in Science A-17, "The Astronomical Perspective," Professor of Astronomy and the History of Science Owen J. Gingerich spent about 40 minutes at tempting to explain the principles of escape velocity. But unlike most teachers Gingerich felt he had to illustrate the topic of the day. So he concluded his lecture by zooming out of Science Center D aboard a homemade rocket...