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Minerva Bernardino, the Dominican Republic's delegate and later the first female U.N. ambassador, recalls the sense of high mission. Bernardino, now 88, broke her ankle at the Sir Francis Drake Hotel the night before she was to address the conclave. "They told me I needed a cast to my knee. I said no. They said I would lose my foot. I said, 'I have to make a speech tomorrow and prefer to lose my foot.'" Harold Stassen, also 88 today, was in the U.S. delegation. The former Governor of Minnesota and perennial presidential hopeful recalls the thrill on June...
DIED. LORD HOME OF THE HIRSEL, 92, who, as Sir Alec Douglas-Home, was British Prime Minister from 1963 until the Conservative Party lost the 1964 elections; in Berwickshire. The Scottish patrician changed party rules to let legislators pick their leader--thus assuring he would be the last blue blood to head the Tories. He also served two stints as Foreign Secretary...
...adventurers, their leader a renowned scientist, travel to a remote, isolated South American location. Shortly after their arrival, they encounter, to their amazement, living dinosaurs. The explorers are separated, and after several harrowing incidents just barely manage to escape, leaving the prehistoric beasts behind. Jurassic Park? No. It is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's 1912 science-fiction classic The Lost World--coincidentally the title of Crichton's Jurassic Park sequel. While Crichton is a master of weaving the latest technology into his tales, he has no problem reaching into the past for inspiration. STEVEN T. DOYLE Zionsville, Indiana...
...PARAPHRASE SIR ARTHUR CONAN Doyle, it was with a heavy heart that I read of the sudden death of British actor Jeremy Brett [CHRONICLES, Sept. 25]. He was the best Sherlock Holmes ever. He will be sadly missed by Sherlockians everywhere in the world. JUNE M. WORTH Philadelphia...
...film begins with the Elliots being hounded by their creditors, their debts so large that they must rent out the family estate, Kellynch Hall. Anne's vain father, Sir Walter Elliot (Corin Redgrave), and her malicious older sister, Elizabeth (Phoebe Nicholls), protest in horror, showing immediately that they lack that prime Austenian virtue, good sense. Only Anne and Lady Russell (Susan Fleetwood), who in the film seems something of an aging bohemian, make the necessary case for relocating to the resort town of Bath, where, as Sir Walter's lawyer tells him, "It is possible to be important at less...