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Died. Nicholas Rossolimo, 65, Russian-born chess grand master; following an accidental fall; in Manhattan. Chess champion of France, Rossolimo came to the U.S. in 1952, when chess in America was less popular than it is today. Though his artistic, almost romantic style of play drew awards for "brilliancy" and won him the U.S. Open Championship in 1955, he was never able to make a living from the game and supplemented his tournament and chess-studio earnings by working as a Waldorf-Astoria busboy and a New York cabby...
Died. Wolf Ladejinsky, 76, Russian-born land reformer; in Washington, D.C. A specialist in Soviet and Asian farm policies, Ladejinsky was tapped by General Douglas MacArthur in 1945 to draw up a land reform bill for occupied Japan. The legislation he drafted emancipated Japan's tenant farmers enabling millions of them to acquire title to their plots and toppling forever the base of Japanese feudalism...
...faculty members, including two Nobel prizewinners and the ubiquitous John Kenneth Galbraith and John Dunlop, who is due to be named Secretary of Labor. This array of talent alone should make the department second to none. Apparently that is not the case. One of the Nobel laureate economics professors, Russian-born Wassily Leontief, 68, has announced that, after 44 years on the faculty, he will resign from Harvard this summer to teach at New York University. His reasons for departing: the department's curriculum is "too narrow" and theoretical, and the senior faculty has lost touch with the students...
...Russian-born economist is 68 years old--past Harvard's mandatory retirement age-- but said he had been asked to continue to teach at Harvard, "at least for two or three years...
Died. Anatole Litvak, 72, Russian-born film director best known for the original version of Mayerling (1936), starring Charles Boyer and Danielle Darrieux, and The Snake Pit (TIME cover, Dec. 20, 1948), starring Olivia de Havilland, which was acclaimed as Hollywood's first realistic examination of insanity; in Neuilly, France...