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DIED. LUCIEN LAURIN, 88, Hall of Fame trainer who saddled 36 stakes winners, including Secretariat, who won the 1973 Belmont by an unprecedented 31 lengths to win the Triple Crown; in Miami. DIED. VERA ATKINS, 92, British spymaster who inspired the James Bond character Miss Moneypenney; in Hastings, England. Born in Romania, Atkins recruited and trained nearly 500 secret agents to parachute into Nazi-occupied France, concocting elaborate identities for the spies. After the war, she tracked down the fates of 117 missing agents and brought their murderers to war-crimes trials...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Jul. 10, 2000 | 7/10/2000 | See Source »

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