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...holder of the Crimson outdoor record as well when he graduated in 1976, Embree put the team ahead of his individual exploits, according to field events coach Ed Stowell. "Mel was just one solid individual, and quite an all-around athlete, a high jumper, long jumper and triple jumper," Stowell says. "In a meet against Army his senior year, he triple-jumped even though he was hurt because the team needed it--and the Olympic trials were only two or three weeks away. He was quite a team player...
DIED. Clair Farrand, 85, holder of more than 250 patents for inventions including the cone radio loudspeaker (which supplanted earphones and horn speakers), an electronic measuring device used in computer memories and submarine navigation, and optical technologies used in range finders, bombsights and periscopes; of a heart attack; in Palm Springs, Calif...
Chopin, Schumann, Liszt and other 19th-century romantic composers expanded the use of register, texture and tone quality to define their music, rather than depending on notes and rhythms, Charles Rosen, professor of music at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and holder of the 1980-81 Norton Chair in poetry, told an audience of 500 at Paine Hall yesterday...
...President Jerome Jacobson departed. Jacobson's replacement as a vice president and chief corporate planner is Mary E. Cunningham, 29, a striking blond who joined Bendix just 15 months ago as Agee's executive assistant. A Wellesley College magna cum laude graduate and, like her boss, the holder of a Harvard M.B.A., she has emerged as the chairman's top adviser...
...present, most public school teachers are required only to hold state certificates. Unlike licenses, these are usually awarded automatically when teacher candidates graduate from an accredited education program. Once granted, such certificates usually extend through a lifetime of teaching-unless the holder is convicted of a crime or proved flagrantly incompetent...