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DIED. LEWIS URRY, 77, whose invention of a long-life battery made possible a host of portable devices; in Middleburg Heights, Ohio. In 1955, at Union Carbide's Eveready lab, the chemical engineer was asked to make a small battery that would last for more than a few minutes. He was quite successful: at a demonstration for company executives, one toy car, equipped with an older battery, quickly slowed to a halt while another, powered with his now standard alkaline battery, raced around and around the cafeteria. Urry, according to his son Michael, was a modest man who "took special...
...DIED. LEWIS URRY, 77, whose invention of a long-life battery made possible a host of portable devices; after a brief illness; in Middleburg Heights, Ohio. In 1955, at Union Carbide?s Eveready lab, the chemical engineer was asked to make a battery that would last for more than a few minutes. He was quite successful: at a demonstration for company executives, one model car barely moved while another, powered with his now-ubiquitous alkaline battery, raced round and round the company cafeteria. Urry, according to his son Michael, was a modest man who ?took special pride around Christmas, when...
...ashes of the crematoriums a Jewish homeland was founded, a place where all Jews could feel safe and welcome. Today the destruction of Israel could come from within by those who feel more entitled to exist in the homeland because they feel more Jewish. How ironic! TONI MCCAULEY Middleburg...
DIED. ATHELSTAN SPILHAUS, 86, scientific jack-of-all-trades; in Middleburg, Va. A deep-sea thermometer and weather-friendly covered skyways were among his futuristic designs...
...their Georgetown mansion into a political think tank where party officials and donors gathered to discuss issues over meals served by black-tied butlers. "PamPAC," as some called her Democrats for the '80s committee, raised $10 million for party coffers. A one-day fund raiser in 1992 at her Middleburg, Virginia, estate gathered more than $3 million for candidate Bill Clinton. The grateful President was happy to send her back in triumph to France, a country she had loved since sneaking away as a teenager for a weekend in Paris with a married earl. As ambassador, her fluent French, hard...