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...Russian-born economist's own words: "It [input-output] is as simple as a cooking recipe. You add the ingredients and the whole things hands together...
Browder became so identified with a policy of coexistence, in fact, that the Soviets had no further use for him after the fighting gave way to the cold war, and ordered his ouster. He spent the last quarter-century of his life in bittersweet retirement, first with his Russian-born wife Raissa in Yonkers, N.Y., and, after her death, with one of his three sons (all are professors of mathematics) in Princeton, N.J. Between puffs on his corncob pipe and games of chess, he had plenty of time to field queries from inquiring historians. Asked in 1971 whether he identified...
Died. Dave Chasen, 74, celebrated Hollywood restaurateur who gave up being a vaudeville ham to serve steak to the stars; of cancer; in Los Angeles. Russian-born Chasen became a favorite with audiences as Comedian Joe Cook's dizzy straight man in the '20s and '30s. When vaudeville declined, he opened a six-table chili-and-spare-ribs joint in Beverly Hills. Chasen's show business comrades-among them, Clark Gable, Jimmy Stewart, Joan Crawford and W.C. Fields-became loyal patrons and helped build Chasen's into show biz's most glamorous beanery...
Died. Eugene Rabinowitch, 72, Russian-born biophysicist who, as a senior member of the Manhattan Project during World War II, helped develop the first atomic bomb, then spent the next 27 years as editor of the authoritative Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and a leading proponent of nuclear arms control; after suffering a stroke; in Washington...
EPHRAIM KATZIR, Israel, the newly elected President of Israel, a Russian-born physicist