Died. Harry Kalven Jr., 60, University of Chicago law professor who, with Colleague Hans Zeisel, wrote The American Jury, a definitive and laudatory tome on the U.S. jury system; of an apparent heart attack; at home in Chicago. An ardent civil libertarian, Kalven frequently argued First Amendment cases, including Entertainer Lenny Bruce's 1963 obscenity appeal to the Illinois Supreme Court; contemptuous of censorship, he regarded obscenity laws as "foolish and trivial." A projected major work on legal theories underlying freedom of speech was half completed when he was stricken.
Died. James M. Cox Jr., 71, newspaper and broadcasting executive; after a long illness; in Miami. Born to politics and printer's ink, Cox was the son and namesake of the newspaper publisher and Ohio Governor who ran a losing race against Warren G. Harding as the 1920 Democratic presidential nominee. Starting in 1929 as a police-beat reporter on his father's Dayton Daily News, he later led the Cox chain's expansion into broadcasting. The Cox holdings grew to include major newspapers and TV and radio stations in Ohio, Georgia, Florida, Pennsylvania, North Carolina and California. A lifelong Democrat, Cox was so alienated by the nomination of George McGovern in 1972 that he not only endorsed Richard Nixon but also ordered all of his newspapers to follow suit.
Died. Seymour E. Harris, 77, economist and adviser to Presidents; in San Diego. Harris spent more than 40 years at Harvard, where, with Paul Samuelson, J.K. Galbraith and others, he became an early advocate of then controversial Keynesian economics. As adviser to Candidate Adlai Stevenson and Presidents John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, Harris acted on his belief that economists should grapple with public issues. "I spend a great deal of my time on public policy," he said proudly. "I am concerned with concrete solutions."
Death Revealed. Liu Shao-chi, 75, former Chinese chief of state, purged during the Cultural Revolution of 1966-69. A close associate of Mao's through a quarter-century of civil war, Liu was named Secretary-General of the Chinese Communist Party in 1943. Liu was considered to be Mao's heir apparent, but his identification with bureaucratic-technocratic policies made him the chief target of the zealous Red Guard levelers of the Cultural Revolution. Denounced as "a renegade, traitor, scab and agent of imperialism," Liu was stripped of party and governmental posts in 1968 and reportedly spent his last years as a laborer on a communal farm.