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...aerial service owes its origin to Michael Wood, 54, a British-born plastic surgeon who began flying rescue missions in a second-hand light plane back in 1957. Under the sponsorship of the private, nonprofit African Medical and Research Foundation, the service now consists of eight planes, an international staff of eight physicians (two with pilots' licenses), from Denmark, Germany, France, Canada and Britain, and five non-M.D. pilots...
Died. W.H. (for Wystan Hugh) Auden, 66, British-born Pulitzer prizewinning poet (see BOOKS...
...Odessa need not become a ghost town. At least that is what Dr. Geoffrey Stanford says. A blithe, British-born M.D. who conducts research and teaches at the University of Texas School of Public Health, he insists that Odessa can build a new prosperity on an unlikely foundation-its own wastes...
Died. Tim Buck, 82, leader of Canada's Communist Party from 1929 to 1962; of a stroke; in Cuernavaca, Mexico. The British-born son of a Tory pub owner. Buck immigrated to Canada in 1912 and helped launch the party nine years later. He faithfully toed the Kremlin line on everything from Stalin's prewar purges to the 1956 invasion of Hungary. Although the party managed to poll 111,892 votes in a 1945 federal election, the number of Communists in Canada had dwindled to fewer than 6,000 by the time he gave up the leadership...
Died. Leo G. Carroll, 80, British-born actor most familiar to television audiences as the urbane banker in the Topper series and the poker-faced spy master in The Man from U.N.C.L.E.; of cancer; in Hollywood. A shy man who regarded acting as therapy for his diffidence, Carroll enjoyed steady employment in hundreds of plays (Angel Street, The Late George Apley), scores of films (Spellbound, the 1939 Wuthering Heights) and frequent TV appearances, in a career that lasted more than half a century...