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DIED. Kenneth More, 67, veteran British stage and screen actor whose characterizations ranged from the rollicking buffoon of such films as Doctor in the House (1954) to the chin-up R.A.F. pilot of Reach for the Sky (1956); of Parkinson's disease; in London. "I seem fated to be either the stiff-upper-lip war hero or the hearty, beer-drinking idiot," More once complained. The remark was overly self-deprecating, as his wonderfully whimsical performance in Genevieve (1953) testified...
Engineers on these projects and two others--an ultraviolet coronograph designed by Astronomy Lecturer John Kohl and an ultraviolet spectrometer by William Parkinson--say they anxiously awaited a returned emphasis on scientific endeavors in space...
...Harder-line members are Thatcher, Defense Secretary Nott and Conservative Party Chairman Cecil Parkinson. Parkinson's presence in the inner council struck many observers as unusual, but, by virtue of his party job, he keeps close tabs on the opinions of individual Tory M.P.s, and therefore is in a position to advise Thatcher on what positions her followers will support, and how strongly they will support them...
Giovanni G. Fazio, Paul Gorenstein, John L Kohl and William H. Parkinson each have an experiment that has been accepted by NASA for use in the so-called "space lab" flights of the space shuttle slated to begin in 1983. During the space-lab missions, the back bay of the Columbia--which has been empty in these preliminary flights--will be filled with 12 or more astronomical experiments...
...fourth Harvard scientist with a space shuttle experiment, William Parkinson, associate director of the Center for Astrophysics, could not be reached for comment on his project--a solar and terrestrial atmosphere spectrometer. Spectrometers are used to analyze the composition of gases by the unique characteristics of the light emitted by each element