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Obituaries in the News
Lipset studied the nature of political extremism, and how the core American values of equality and achievement keep class conflict in check.
He also first explained the connection between economic development and democracy, an insight that earned him attention from journalists, policymakers and academics.
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Lipset was the only person to have been president of both the American Sociological Association and the American Political Science Association.
He was the author of more than 20 books and editor of two dozen more. One of his early books, "Political Man" (1960), sold more than 400,000 copies and was translated into 20 languages. Another, "The First New Nation" (1962), was a finalist for the National Book Award.
Lipset held prestigious academic positions at Columbia, Berkeley, Harvard, Stanford and George Mason universities, as well as the Hoover Institution and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
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John Lust
BUTLER, N.J. (AP) _ John Lust, who apparently was the last surviving crew member from the Navy's disaster-prone rigid airship program of the 1920s and 1930s, died Dec. 29. He was 94.
Lust enlisted in the Navy at 17, a few years after the 1925 crash of the rigid, blimp-like USS Shenandoah. Unlike the flexible blimps that fly over sporting events, the rigid airships had internal frames.
Despite that disaster over southern Ohio, which killed 14, Lust went to work running engines on the airships, first on the USS Los Angeles, then on the USS Akron, which was based in Lakehurst.
Lust was on leave recovering from injuries he sustained in a car accident when the Akron crashed into the sea off Long Beach Island on April 3, 1933. Seventy-three of the 76 men aboard died. Within two years, the Navy ended its rigid-hulled airship program. It was two years after that that a similar airship, the Hindenburg, burned at Lakehurst.
Navy Lakehurst Historical Society said it had checked the records of every crew member from the Naval rigid-hulled airship program and confirmed that Lust was the last to die.
