Milestones: Oct. 27, 1961

Died. Louis Rwagasore, 31. Belgian-baiting Crown Prince and newly elected Premier of Urundi, southern half of the trust territory of Ruanda-Urundi, which is scheduled for independence in 1962; of an assassin's bullet; in Usumbura, Urundi.

Died. The Lord Invader (real name: Rupert Westmore Grant), 47. Trinidad-bred Calypso king, a master of ribald improvisation, whose creations included World War II's ubiquitous Rum and Coca-Cola; of complications after surgery; in a Harlem hospital.

Died. Sigurd F. Varian, 60, ex-chairman of California's Varian Associates, a one time barnstorming pilot whose distaste for blind flying led him to invent (with two partners) the klystron tube, the high-frequency...

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