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...Valera's struggle for Irish independence, in 1927 argued the last writ of habeas corpus for Sacco and Vanzetti the night of their execution, and in 1953 joined in a last-ditch attempt to save convicted Atom Spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg from the electric chair; of bronchial pneumonia; in Oceanside...
...Admiral Charles B. Momsen, 70, U.S. submarine expert and inventor of the Momsen lung for underwater escapes, who in 1928 devised the first successful escape device by rigging a mask to a rubberized bag of oxygen, testing it himself before it became standard equipment on all U.S. subs; of pneumonia; in St. Petersburg...
...most responsible for putting Hong Kong back on its financial feet after World War II, who demonstrated his confidence by redeeming the illegal currency issued by Japanese occupation forces, an operation that eventually cost some $30 million but stimulated the credit and trade vital to commercial survival; of bronchial pneumonia; in London...
Died. Elmer Rice (born Reizenstein), 74, U.S. dramatist and one of the firsi to see the American stage as a vehicle for social criticism; of pneumonia; in Southampton, England. Short, peppery and prolific, Rice despised the frothy shows so in vogue during his youth ("I'm interested in being realistic about life") and used the theater to get his strident views across. Over the years, he bitingly attacked everything from fascism to automation, theater critics, social smugness, TV blacklisting and militarism in more than 50 full-length plays. Only a few of them (1919's On Trial...
Iowa's Senator Bourke Hickenlooper, chairman of the committee, said that he had released the report without reading it because he was worried that it might be leaked piecemeal and distorted. But G.O.P. leaders were aghast. Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen, recuperating from pneumonia, left Walter Reed General Hospital and hurried to Capitol Hill with a statement: "We reiterate our wholehearted support of the Commander in Chief of our armed forces." House Minority Leader Gerald Ford seconded Dirksen, declaring that an "overwhelming majority" of G.O.P. Congressmen agreed that "we're not going to throw Viet Nam into...