Milestones: Apr. 15, 1985

DIED. Luther Terry, 73, physician, U.S. Surgeon General from 1961 to 1965 and head of the panel whose careful, comprehensive 1964 report on smoking and health--the first authoritative statement that smoking cigarettes increased the risk of death from lung cancer, emphysema and coronary-artery disease --encouraged thousands of Americans to kick the habit; of heart disease; in Philadelphia.

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