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...another great era-should say goodbye. Dead last week of a stroke at 75 was Grover Michael Aloysius Augustine Whalen, president of the 1939 New York World's Fair, chief greeter of the world's celebrities who came to New York during a pulsating quarter-century, inventor of the ticker-tape parade-the Host of New York...
...Scientists measure high vacuum in torrs. One torr (named after Italian Scientist Evangelista Torricelli, 1608-47, inventor of the mercury barometer) is the pressure that will support a column of mercury one millimeter high...
Died. Harry F. Waters, 67. prolific inventor of food-packaging devices who gave the world the paper tea bag, called a boon by billions and "the mouse in the teacup" by Etiquette Expert Amy Vanderbilt; of a heart attack suffered aboard the Twentieth Century Limited; in Albany...
Buckminster Fuller, internationally renowned architect, inventor of the Dymaxion house, the geodesic dome, and the Dymaxion World Map, is living at Quincy House during his term as Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry...
...Reports (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). "The Fat American," a look at the causes and cures of overweight. Among experts interviewed: Dr. Paul Dudley White and Ancel Keys, physiologist and co-inventor of wartime K ration...