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Boglioli is something of a pioneer in this day of superstar swimming adolescents. In a sport where the 'good quit young,' many older female swimmers testify to the inspiration of Boglioli's numerous swimming achievements--captured while she was married and in her twenties...
...assistant coach at Yale. Boglioli has not, however, resigned her role of swimming pioneer. She enjoys tackling the challenges of her profession--one whose unorthodox hours and high rate of divorce often discourages women...
...most sophisticated videodisc players currently available are Magnavision, a joint venture of the Dutch electronics firm Philips and the American entertainment company MCA, and LaserDisc, a product of the Japanese electronics firm Pioneer. Both use playback machines that read pictures and sound from a metallic record via a laser beam that never physically touches the platter. With LaserDisc the viewer can select which of the up to 54,000 frames on the record he wants to see by pushing buttons on a keyboard; each frame has its own number. For instance, on a disc that contains images of art masterpieces...
DIED. John Knudsen Northrop, 85, aviation pioneer and founder of Northrop Corp., who designed such celebrated planes as the original Lockheed Vega (in which Amelia Earhart made her historic solo transatlantic flight in 1932), the night-flying P-61 Black Widow fighter in World War II and the revolutionary boomerang-shaped Flying Wing; of pneumonia; in Glendale, Calif. Northrop, who was also a co-founder of Lockheed Corp. in 1927 before starting his own firm in 1939, blamed manufacturing disputes with the Air Force, not problems of flight stability, for the fact that he never realized his dream of mass...
DIED. Henry S. Huntingdon, 99, onetime Presbyterian minister who became a pioneer of nudism in the U.S., serving as the first editor of the movement's magazine (then called the Nudist) and helping to establish one of the country's first nudist camps, at Otis, Mass.; in Philadelphia. Huntington, who declared himself an agnostic humanist when he resigned his ministry in 1938, maintained that nudism affirmed "the goodness of man and the possible satisfactoriness of life...