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