DIED. Roger Miles Blough, 81, scholarly, reserved chairman from 1955 to 1969 of U.S. Steel, then the nation's fourth-largest company in terms of assets and the flagship of U.S. industry, who in 1962 had the misfortune to tangle with President John F. Kennedy over a proposed steel-price rise; in Hawley, Pa. An infuriated Kennedy called out several federal departments and agencies, including the antitrust division and the FBI, to investigate U.S. Steel; Blough had to back down from the price boost after other steel companies declined to follow his firm's lead.
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