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Marcus M. Urioste Westchester, Conn...
DIED. Gjon Mili, 79, innovative LIFE photographer whose use of the high-speed electronic flash and multiple-exposure prints to capture movement too fast to be seen by the naked eye influenced two generations of photojournalists; of pneumonia; in Stamford, Conn. "Time could truly be made to stand still," Mili once said. "Texture could be retained despite sudden, violent movement." During his 45-year association with LIFE, the Albanian-born Mili did just that in thousands of stop-action pictures, among them one of Pablo Picasso using a penlight in his darkened studio to carve a drawing out of thin...
...CHRISTOPHER J. Dodd (D-Conn.) called it "the Great Engine War." "A great victory for Massachusetts, for the Air Force, and for the American taxpayer," countered Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.). "An insult to Pratt and Whitney, its employees, and the American taxpayer" was the way Rep. Barbara Kennelly (D-Conn.) phrased...
...Harvard women's gymnastics team travelled to New London. Conn., Friday for a tri-meet with Connecticut College and Westfield College. A forfeit by Westfield, however, allowed Harvard's understaffed squad to nab a second place finish. Connecticut throttled the Crimson...
DIED. Gardner D. Stout, 80, investment banker and president emeritus of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City; in Stamford, Conn. A wildlife enthusiast, he raised about $25 million for the institution and opened four notable exhibition halls during his tenure as unsalaried president...