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  1.                                                                                 MILESTONES, Page 52
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  4.     DIED. Nathaniel C. Wyeth, 78, inventor of the plastic soda
  5. bottle; in Glen Cove, Me. In the late 1960s the Du Pont
  6. engineer, who was a son of the illustrator N.C. Wyeth and
  7. brother of the painter Andrew Wyeth, developed a bottle made
  8. of polyethylene terephthalate, or PET, which became a standard
  9. material for drink containers.
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