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Died. Francis C. Frary, 85, pioneer in aluminum research, who as head of Alcoa's labs discovered the electrolytic process of producing super-pure aluminum and held 30 important patents for the company; in Pittsburgh...
Died. William T. Piper, 89, light-plane pioneer whose ubiquitous Piper Cubs put flying within reach of thousands and earned him the sobriquet "Henry Ford of aviation"; of heart disease; in Lock Haven, Pa. Piper's first Cubs lifted off the airstrip in 1931. Though slow, drafty and frail, they were easy to fly and, more important, cost only $1,325. By 1940, four out of every five pilots had learned to fly in Cubs; after World War II, thousands were sold to weekend flyers, starting a light-plane boom that has now grown to $425 million annually. Piper...
...Pioneer Retires California's Chief Justice Roger J. Traynor is widely regarded as one of the greatest judges who never sat on the U.S. Supreme Court. Regret is hardly in order. A fount of creative federalism. Traynor has spent 30 years writing 930 opinions that often put the California Supreme Court far ahead of the U.S. Supreme Court on issues ranging from racial discrimination to contract doctrine. Now almost 70, Traynor has just announced that he will retire...
Satirist Stan Freberg was a pioneer in sneak-it-to-'em inspiration. Commissioned by the United Presbyterian Church in 1963, Freberg turned out a series of low-key but catchy radio ads. Franciscan Friars Karl Holtsnider and Emery Tang of Los Angeles used a similar approach on TV with a pilot Mother's Day spot in 1966: the camera simply panned across the faces of mothers of many races and nations. Now the Franciscans have a 20-man staff and a $150,000 annual budget, funded by 3,000 fellow friars and affiliated laymen...
...Sigmund Freud: "What does a woman want?" During 53 years of marriage, Freud's wife Martha, a plain and gracious woman who scarcely bothered to understand his psychoanalytic theories, neither supplied nor demanded an answer. Now it appears Freud may have known all along, not as the pioneer of a revolutionary new approach to the human psyche...