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  1.                                                                                 MILESTONES, Page 61
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  4.     DIED. William Shockley, 79, physicist who shared the Nobel
  5. Prize in 1956 for his part in inventing the transistor, the
  6. device that made modern electronics possible; in Palo Alto,
  7. Calif. In the mid-1960s he ventured controversially into racist
  8. genetic theory, arguing that whites in general are superior in
  9. intelligence to blacks and proposing that people with low IQs
  10. or genetically transmitted diseases be paid to be sterilized.
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