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DIED. Courtlandt S. Gross, 77, president, then chairman of Lockheed Aircraft Corp. from 1956 to 1967, who turned the struggling company into a leviathan; of gunshot wounds during a break-in by intruders who also shot his wife and a live-in housekeeper; at their mansion in Villanova, Pa. Originally a salesman, Gross entered Lockheed in 1932 when his older brother Robert and partners bought control of a company then in receivership. Under Gross, Lockheed diversified, building satellites, Poseidon missiles and ships in addition to supersonic airplanes. During one astounding four-year burst in the early 1960s, he nearly doubled...
DIED. Brenda Benet, 36, who played the scheming, neurotic Lee Dumonde in the TV soap opera Days of Our Lives, and was the ex-wife of Actor Bill Bixby (The Incredible Hulk); of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head; in Los Angeles...
Only tiny chest scars remain from his gunshot wound. The 11 Ibs. he lost while recuperating from the assassination attempt have been regained, and then some. "No Mexican lunch today," he declared with resignation recently, surveying the White House menu. "I gained five pounds over Christmas...
...pistol Adams fast on the draw himself, raised his camera and automatically clicked the shutter. He did not fully realize what he had until a colleague wired, "This is the Greatest Picture of the Viet Nam War!" Or as Evans now explains: "That was the most important gunshot of the war, not because it was heard round the world, but because it was seen round the world...
DIED. Alvin Feldman, 53, veteran airline executive who had headed Continental Airlines since last year; of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound; in Los Angeles. Feldman, whose wife Rosemily died of cancer in 1980, was losing a bitter fight to prevent a takeover of the company by Texas International Airlines (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS...