Died. Eddie Neloy, 50, one of the winningest trainers in horseracing history; of a heart attack; in Elmont, N.Y. At 14, Neloy ran away from the slums of Chicago's South Side to become a jockey. "How was I to know," he later sighed, "that I was going to grow up to be 6 ft. 2 in. and 220 lbs.?" Neloy took a $5-a-week job as a groom. He was hired by the Phipps family and wound up training such moneymakers as Successor and Buckpasser. In 1966 Neloy earned a record $2,456,250 for the Phipps' stables.

Died. Frank Conniff, 57, former correspondent, columnist and editor for the Hearst newspapers; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Conniff won a wide audience as a combat reporter in Europe during World War II and later in Korea. He became a member of the Hearst "Task Force" and shared a 1955 Pulitzer Prize with Joseph Kingsbury-Smith and William Randolph Hearst Jr. for the trio's exclusive interview with Nikita Khrushchev. Conniff's last major assignment was as editor of the short-lived New York World Journal Tribune.

Died. Thomas J. Dodd, 64, the only U.S. Senator ever to be formally censured by his colleagues for financial misdeeds; of a heart attack; in Old Lyme, Conn. Before scandal ruined his career, the Connecticut Democrat had a reputation as a tough, responsible prosecutor and investigator. He served a brief tour as an FBI agent after earning a law degree at Yale, later helped convict Nazi war criminals at Nuremberg. In 1958, Dodd won the first of his two Senate terms and soon zeroed in on subversives from his post on the Internal Security Subcommittee. He was a longtime champion of gun-control legislation and Senate sponsor of the 1968 gun-control bill, as well as a principal backer of last year's Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act. In 1965, some of Dodd's former staff members leaked material indicating that the Senator had put campaign contributions to personal use. A Senate investigation ended in a censure motion, carried by a vote of 92 to 5. Last year Dodd sought re-election as an independent, finishing last in a field of three.

Died. Rabbi Sasson Khadouri, 91, longtime leader of Iraq's beleaguered Jews; in Baghdad. Greeting foreign visitors with what one American correspondent called the "cautious dignity of a tightrope walker," the Grand Rabbi presided over the decline of Iraq's Jewish community from an estimated 150,000 in 1947 to fewer than 3,000. Though Khadouri found it good politics to oppose Zionism, the Iraq government made life difficult for his people by executing or imprisoning many of them as "Israeli spies."

This file is automatically generated by a robot program, so reader's discretion is required.