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He was born on the floor of a humble hogan, destined to be a sheepherder. Instead, he became a respected educator and because he had been a member of it an expert on arguably the most elite and secretive corps in World War II.
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Jimmy “Baby Face” McLarnin, a two-time welterweight boxing champion in an era when each weight division had only one titleholder, has died. He was 96. McLarnin died Oct. 28 at a nursing home in Richland, Wash. The cause of death was not reported.
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Ruth Manning, a stage, screen and television character actress who gained nationwide recognition in the 1980s playing Aunt Harriet in a series of commercials for Kraft Real Mayonnaise, has died. Manning, who was believed to be 84, died Nov. 19 while auditioning for a TV role and was pronounced dead of heart failure at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, said her agent, Greg Mayo.
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Marion Hamner Hawkes, 74, who inspired the strong, sometimes feisty tomboy character of Mary Ellen on television’s “The Waltons,” died of liver and kidney failure Monday at a hospice in Williamsburg, Va. Hawkes was the sister of Earl Hamner Jr., the creator of “The Waltons” who based the show’s characters on his family and experiences growing up in rural Virginia during the Depression. The CBS series, co-starring Richard Thomas as aspiring writer John Boy, the close-knit family’s eldest son, ran from 1972 to 1981.
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Vic Sussman, 65, a veteran journalist and author who was senior editor for the public radio business program “Marketplace,” died in Washington, D.C., on Monday of an apparent stroke after successful surgery. During his long career, Sussman was a senior editor at U.S. News & World Report and a columnist for the Washington Post’s Book World and the Washington Post Magazine. He also worked for Voice of America, America Online and Cahners Business Information. He joined “Marketplace,” which is produced in Los Angeles by American Public Media, this year.
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Celso Furtado, Brazil’s most influential economist during the 20th century and an important theorist of methods of spurring economic growth in developing countries, died Saturday in Rio de Janeiro. He was 84. His death was announced by Aloizio Mercadante, a senator of the governing Workers Party.
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Otis Dudley Duncan, a social scientist who used statistical tools and models to show sociological trends and later helped determine that education played a greater role than social status in determining a boy’s future success, died on Nov. 16 in a hospice in Santa Barbara, Calif. He was 82. The cause was prostate cancer, said his daughter, Eleanor Duncan Armstrong of State College, Pa.
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Arthur Hailey, the storyteller who made a fortune using seemingly mundane topics such as hotel management, international banking and snow-packed airports as settings for wildly bestselling, page-turning novels, died Thursday in the Bahamas. He was 84. Hailey apparently suffered a fatal stroke while sleeping at his home in Lyford Cay on New Providence Island, his wife, Sheila, told Associated Press. He had been in declining health over the last few years after a stroke and heart surgeries.
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Martin E. Malia, a leading expert on the Soviet Union who predicted the dissolution of communism in that country, has died. He was 80. Malia, who taught at UC Berkeley for more than three decades, died Nov. 19 at a convalescent hospital in Oakland. He had been in failing health battling pneumonia and a series of infections.
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J. Edward Martin, a structural engineer who helped shape the face of downtown Los Angeles as a partner in one of the city’s historic architectural firms, has died. He was 88. Martin died Monday of old age at his home in Bradbury, according to a statement from his family’s architectural firm, AC Martin Partners.
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Thomas G. Flynn, 67, a press secretary to former San Francisco Mayor Joseph Alioto and later a senior vice president for public relations at Bechtel Corp., died Sunday of congestive heart failure at a hospital in Dixon, Calif. A former journalist who reported on the Vietnam War for the Oakland Tribune, Flynn was on a congressional staff before joining Alioto’s staff. He later served as executive secretary of San Francisco’s Public Utilities Commission.
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Lawrence Pierce, 104, a rhododendron cultivator with an international reputation, died Nov. 14 in Seattle after breaking his spine in a recent fall. A native of Massachusetts, Pierce served in World War I and graduated from Middlebury College in 1921. He was a teacher and principal in his home state but moved west after marrying Isabel Colman, whose family owned a West Seattle homestead. The couple started a rhododendron garden covering four acres on those grounds.
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Donald Puddy, 67, a veteran NASA flight director who supervised Apollo, Skylab and early space shuttle missions from Mission Control in Houston, died Monday in Houston after a lengthy illness, NASA officials said. A native of Ponca City, Okla., Puddy joined NASA’s Johnson Space Center in 1964, becoming the agency’s 10th flight director.
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Charles DeCarlo, an I.B.M. executive who became president of Sarah Lawrence College and led an overhaul of its finances and renovation of its campus, died on Wednesday at his home in Manhattan. He was 83. The cause was cancer, his daughter Tessa DeCarlo said.
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Ancel Keys, best known for putting the K in K-rations by assembling meals that could be carried into combat during World War II, and dubbed “Mr. Cholesterol” for demonstrating the relationship between a fatty diet and heart disease, has died. He was 100. Keys died Saturday in Minneapolis of natural causes. 
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Larry Brown, a critically praised writer of Southern fiction who used plain language to tell complex stories about ordinary people in crisis, died Wednesday of an apparent heart attack at his home in Oxford, Miss., according to his publisher, Algonquin Press. He was 53. Brown had not been in ill health, but friends said that his family had a history of heart trouble.
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WASHINGTON Joseph Sisco, a diplomat who played a major role in former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger’s shuttle diplomacy in the Middle East and whose career in the State Department spanned five presidential administrations, died Nov. 23 of complications from diabetes at his home in Chevy Chase, Md. He was 85. As a State Department negotiator, Sisco was involved in diplomatic hot spots that included Syria’s invasion of Jordan in 1970, the India-Pakistan war in 1971, and Egypt and Israel’s peace negotiations in 1974.
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Doug Peterson, a thoroughbred trainer whose work with Seattle Slew in 1978 led to a division title for the horse who had swept the Triple Crown under a different trainer the year before, was found dead Monday at a hotel near Hollywood Park, the Los Angeles coroner’s office said. He was 53. Peterson was found in his room at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Lt. Cheryl MacWillie said. “He was lying on his side, and there was no trauma,” she said. A toxicology report that might help determine the cause of death would be completed in six to eight weeks, MacWillie said.
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Noel Perrin, a widely read scholar, essayist and critic whose work reveled in the deep, crystalline pleasure of ordinary experience, died on Sunday at his home in Thetford Center, Vt. He was 77. Mr. Perrin, who had been ill for some time with Shy-Drager syndrome, a degenerative neurological disorder, died not long after breaking his hip, said his wife, Sara Coburn.
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Ellsworth Van Graafeiland, a senior judge and a longtime conservative mainstay on the federal appeals bench in New York, died last Saturday in Rochester. He was 89 and lived in Rochester.His death was announced in Manhattan by Chief Judge John M. Walker Jr. of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, to which Judge Van Graafeiland was appointed by President Gerald R. Ford in 1974. Judge Van Graafeiland took senior status on reaching 70 in 1985 but continued to commute to hear appeals cases on a reduced schedule until a few weeks ago.
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