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Dale R. Corson; kept peace at Cornell protest in 1969

By Paul Vitello

 |  New York Times  

  April 07, 2012

Dale R. Corson, a nuclear physicist and Cornell University administrator who was instrumental in defusing a potentially explosive standoff with armed student militants in 1969, then brought relative peace to the campus as the university’s president during the 1970s, died Sunday in Ithaca, N.Y. He was 97.

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