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...first case involves Pierre Charles Pathé, 70, the son of pioneer French Film Producer Charles Pathé. An avowed admirer of the U.S.S.R., Pathé was arrested in 1979 after leaving a long trail of liaisons with Soviet diplomats and intelligence agents. He was accused of accepting money for disseminating Soviet disinformation through numerous writings dating back...
...correct these conditions would be to change the curvature of the cornea so the images fall directly on the retina. The pioneer of surgery that accomplishes that optical feat is Ophthalmologist José Barraquer of Bogotá, Colombia, who for the past two decades has been performing a variety of delicate and complex corneal operations that he calls refractive keratoplasty (an operation on the cornea for optical reasons). In one procedure known as keratomileusis (cornea carving), the front of the cornea is sliced off with a high-speed vibrating blade, quickly frozen, and then reshaped on its underside...
DIED. Willard Frank Libby, 71, nuclear pioneer whose "atomic clock" for dating ancient objects won him the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1960; of a blood clot in the lung; in Los Angeles. A participant in the World War II Manhattan Project, Libby helped develop the gaseous-diffusion method of separating uranium isotopes. In the mid-'40s, he discovered that a radioactive isotope of carbon was a tiny but measurable part of all living matter and, decaying at a predictable rate, could be used to assign an age to dead organic archaeological and geological remains. An advocate of nuclear...
MARRIED. Bonnie Franklin, 36, singer, dancer and actress, who plays a divorcee on TV's One Day at a Time; and Producer Marvin Minoff, 48, with whom she worked on a TV movie about Birth Control Pioneer Margaret Sanger; both for the second time; in Los Angeles...
...famed botanist William Seal, a pioneer in the development of high-yield corn hybrids, began a bizarre experiment. He buried 20 pint-size bottles, each containing 1,000 seeds of 20 weed varieties, near his lab in East Lansing, Mich. His aim, in that age before weedkillers: to find out how long plowed-under seeds could survive, and thus, how long fields needed to be left fallow, to ensure a weed-free crop when replanted...