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A Radcliffe graduate student doing research in Africa was believed killed yesterday when the plunged over Victoria Falls in Southern Rhodesia.

The body of Mrs. Phyllis Lorimer Leroy, 44, has not been recovered.

Mrs. Leroy, in Africa for research on her doctorate thesis for a Radcliffe degree, was on a sight seeing tour, when apparently she lost balance and fell over into the falls. According to reports, the sot where she fell is 354 feet high.

A graduate of Mt. Holyoke College, she was on leave from the State Department where she had worked for eight years.

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