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...help mold an era in which excellence in education is one of the most important of U.S. goals, President Johnson last week appointed John William Gardner, 52, liberal Republican and president of the philanthropic Carnegie Corporation, as Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. He succeeds Anthony Celebrezze, the Italian-born ex-mayor of Cleveland, who was nominated for a vacancy on the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, headquartered in Cincinnati...
...only battle was for second place Desperately rocking his car from side to side to slosh the last few pints of fuel into his starving carburetors, Parnelli Jones limped across the line 6 sec. ahead of Italian-born Rookie Mario Andretti-and almost instantly ran completely out of gas. Climbing out, he took off his helmet and began pushing his car the i mi. back to the pits...
Died. Henri Pigozzi, 66, founder and recently retired chairman of France's Simca, an Italian-born onetime Fiat salesman who set up his own factory in France in 1934, went on to become the enfant terrible of the French auto industry by taking over third place (behind Renault and Citroen) with his bargain-priced ($1,200) Aronde sedan, by forbidding his workers to join the national unions, and by merging with Ford's French subsidiary in 1954 and subsequently selling the controlling interest to Chrysler in 1963; of a heart attack; in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France...
California virologists: Italian-born Dr. Renato Dulbecco, 50, now at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in San Diego, and Dr. (of veterinary medicine) Harry Rubin, 38, of the University of California. Starting with viruses that infect bacteria, Dr. Dulbecco went on to show the mechanism by which polyoma virus, which causes many animal cancers, infects cells. Most important was the striking and unexpected finding that the virus itself, which has a nucleus of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), does not need to multiply in order to cause cancer...
Married. Anna Maria Alberghetti, 28, Italian-born actress (Lili in Carnival) and nightclub coloratura; and Claudio Guzman, 36, TV director (The Patty Duke Show); he for the second time; in Los Angeles...