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...line: "We have a great settlement. I got the house and I gave him the gate." - ∙ Died. Marguerite Perey, 65, pioneering research chemist; of cancer; in Paris. At 20, Perey began working as a laboratory assistant to Marie Curie at the French Radium Institute. In 1939 she isolated francium, the 87th element in the periodic table. Cancer, probably caused by her work with radioactive elements, had already afflicted her when she was elected as the first female corresponding member of the French Academy of Science in 1962. ∙ Died. Thomas McCahill, 68, popular automobile writer; of a heart attack...
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