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The grandson of Sigmund Freud was often considered the greatest living master of the human form.
Warren D. Magnusson’s career as a CIA finance specialist included a role in funding the U2 spy plane and its supersonic successors.
James T. Molloy, himself a behind-the-scenes institution, was the last in a line of 34 House doorkeepers stretching back to 1789. He died July 19 at age 75.
The ace combat pilot during World War II who later directed the NSA and retired as commander of all forces in the Pacific at the drawdown of the Vietnam War died July 14 at his home.
The top-ranking South African Army general and defender of his country’s apartheid policies died of a heart ailment July 18 in Cape Town.
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