Died. Joseph C. Wilson, 61, board chairman of Xerox (see BUSINESS).

Died. Joe Adonis, 69, the onetime East Coast gambling czar, described by the late crime-fighting Senator Estes Kefauver as "the most sinister of all U.S. underground figures"; of heart disease; in Ancona, Italy. Born Giuseppe Doto, "Joe A." became a Brooklyn rumrunner and a kingpin of "Murder Inc.," later bankrolled casinos from Maine to Miami, dabbled in legitimate business. A suave figure partial to conservative suits, Adonis once derided less successful gangsters as "crazy hicks. That fellow Dillinger--why, he had about a quarter in his pocket when he got knocked off." When the Kefauver subcommittee cracked down on racketeers, Adonis was convicted in 1951 for gambling, served two years, then was convicted for perjury and chose deportation. He lived in Milan until four months ago, when an Italian court declared him "dangerous" and banished him to the tiny Adriatic village of Serra de' Conti.

Died. J. Howard Pew, 89, publicity-shy patriarch of the powerful Philadelphia family that controls Sun Oil and chairman of that company's executive committee; in Ardmore, Pa. He took over the firm in 1912, when he succeeded his father, Sunoco Founder Joseph N. Pew, as president. Though for a time a supporter of the John Birch Society, his penchant for privacy made him one of the nation's least-known industrial giants.

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