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Soyinka, author of "Kongi's Harvest" and "The Lion and the Jewel," was detained by the Nigerian government during the seventies for his political activities. He spoke as a guest of the annual Theodore Spencer memorial lecture series, which has, in the past, invited T.S. Eliot and Jean Renoir...
...Soviets considered Holbrook an especially acute pest: he speaks perfect Russian and had made many friends among the Soviet military. The Soviets regard the dozen or so U.S. military attaches in Moscow as little more than spies anyway. Indeed, Holbrook and his unfortunate fellow tripper-Lieut. Colonel Thomas Spencer, still among the American officers who work out of the Moscow embassy-were headed toward a particularly sensitive area: Lvov, a Soviet military headquarters city only 40 miles from the Polish border...
...National Portrait Gallery earlier this month, and reaction was tepid. Said one critic: "No one could possibly enthuse about it." What did enthuse just about everyone, however, was the latest chapter in another royal matter-whether Charlie will finally settle down and wed the fair Lady Diana Spencer, 19. Last week's installment was a Daily Mirror centerfold that reported a Milquetoast proposal from Charles: "If I were to ask you, do you think it would be possible?" and a decidedly less ambiguous ultimatum from the Queen: "Marry her by this summer...
...Church St. cafe, which has provided free music and snacks for 14 years, has found four people to form the new team of managers, replacing Dean Spencer '78, a third-year law student, who is leaving to write his thesis, and Lauren Walker...
...good that people will still be able to hear good music for free and musicians will still be able to play in a place where people will listen," Spencer said yesterday...