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...quiet life until 1959, when Rinpoche, like the Dalai Lama, fled the country in the face of Chinese takeover. Rinpoche spent two years in India, then four in England at Oxford University, then moved on to Scotland to found a meditation center. In 1969, he relinquished his monastic vows. The next year, he married a 16-year-old Englishwoman, Diana Judith Pybus. The nuptial move drew criticism from lama quarters...
...University has appointed a chairman, Oxford scholar Olwen Hufton--to whom they offered tenure last summer--and a head tutor, Soyna Michel. Five of the 12 students in the program are full concentrators and the other seven are joint majors. According to administrators, the concentration is negotiating for a new home...
Born to a prominent family in 1920, von Weizsacker was educated at several foreign universities, including Oxford. During World War II, the German president served in the German army, attaining the rank of captain...
...Science Center Shuttle Bus Stop was moved to Memorial Hall a few months ago because a Cambridge Court said that the old stop on Oxford St. stopped traffic. But the Memorial Hall stop was soon scrapped when work began on the stained-glass windows there...
DIED. Richard Ellmann, 69, scholarly author of James Joyce, the definitive biography of the Irish novelist, and the first American to become a professor of English literature at Oxford University; of pneumonia brought on by a motor-neuron ailment commonly known as Lou Gehrig's disease; in Oxford, England...