Died. Dr. Phil Edwards, 64, physician and Canadian Medal-winning runner at three Olympics; of a heart attack; in Montreal. Edwards starred in track at New York University, later became an authority on tropical and chest diseases. At the 1936 Olympics in Munich, he and other black athletes, including Jesse Owens, debunked the Nazi theory of Aryan superiority.

Died. Winston Prouty, 65, maverick Republican Senator from Vermont; of cancer; in Boston. A flinty former smalltown mayor, Prouty served for eight years as Vermont's only Congressman before his election to the Senate in 1958. He was a political enigma to most of his colleagues, on the Hill. In 1969, for instance, Prouty provided a crucial pro-Administration vote in favor of the anti-ballistic missile system, then defied the White House by opposing the Supreme Court nomination of G. Harrold Carswell the following year. He also advocated a guaranteed annual income.

Died. Bourke Hickenlooper, 75, conservative Republican Senator from Iowa for nearly a quarter-century; of a heart attack; on Shelter Island, N.Y. A onetime Cedar Rapids lawyer, "Hick" Hickenlooper followed a traditional path through the Governor's Mansion before winning a Senate seat in 1944. In Washington, he was known as a consummate skeptic; he voted or argued against many Democratic measures, including the 1964 civil rights bill and Medicare. Until his retirement in 1969, however, he maintained a moderate internationalism as ranking Republican on the Foreign Relations Committee. He also sponsored several major laws, including the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 and the controversial Hickenlooper Amendment to the 1962 foreign aid bill, which suspends assistance to any country that expropriates American property without assuring adequate compensation.

Died. Nikita Khrushchev, 77, deposed Soviet leader (see THE WORLD).

Died. Spring Byington, 84, the durable character actress whose sympathetic screen portrayals contradicted Philip Wylie's image of pernicious momism; of cancer; in Hollywood. "Why should I object to playing mothers all the time on the screen?'' Miss Byington once asked. "Mothers scheme and plan and love with all the versatility of a three-ring circus." Though her maternal roles included Marmee in the 1933 screen classic Little Women and Mickey Rooney's all-knowing mom in the first Andy Hardy film, she reached the zenith of her career in the mid-1950s as the fluttery mother-in-law with the heart of gold on the TV comedy series December Bride.

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