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Died. William J. Sparks, 71, co-inventor of butyl rubber and the holder of 145 patents; after a long illness; in Coral Gables, Fla. Joining the Standard Oil Co. (now Exxon) in 1936 as a research chemist, he soon helped develop the synthetic rubber so vital to Allied forces during World War II. Sparks often expressed his concern that young scientists be taught an obligation to society. Said he: "Science without purpose is an art without responsibility...
...fact. There are no tomorrows, no more opportunities to lose, and as a result, Brown is co-holder of the 1976 Ivy football title...
Worst defeat for Harvard: 1960, one bruised ego. During halftime of Yale's eventual victory at The Stadium, reserve place-kicker holder Julio Cabot Lodge was informed that he had been rejected for membership by the Porcellian Club and tried to commit suicide with a pair of tape scissors. The attempt failed and Julio now makes the lemonade for Tommy's Lunch...
...following Ford from coast to coast. The logistics of the schedule, Fischer finds, can present peculiar problems, like having to surrender his luggage the night before an early-morning flight. Says he: "Sometimes I end up having to carry a toothbrush, razor and shaving cream in my raincoat pocket." Holder of a master's degree in history from the University of Chicago, Fischer has covered three presidential campaigns and feels that this one is "far and away the most interesting because of the uncertainty." Despite the pace, the correspondents can agree with one veteran newsman's observation...
...Reagan crusade, shunned by the Republican Party in Kansas City, were here to build a 'New Majority' on the structure of the American Independent Party. For a week they had been on the phone to Reaganites but, as a prominent conservative told me, not one Republican office-holder defected. North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms, New Hampshire Governor Meldrim Thomson, Illinois Congressman Phillip Crane--none set foot in the Hilton. 'National Review' editor William Rusher and direct-mail wizard Richard Viguerie, leaders of the coalition movement, groped around and finally found a candidate in Robert Morris, a McCarthy era witch hunter...