PASSAGES: [FINAL Edition]

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PENNY LERNOUX, 49, a prize-winning journalist and author noted for books on the role of the Catholic Church in Latin America, Oct. 8 in Mount Kisco, N.Y., of cancer.

ARNOLD PICKER, 76, a former executive vice president and international head at United Artists Pictures who sought to preserve film's distinction as an art, Sunday of pneumonia. He retired from the motion picture industry in 1967. Picker was a leading figure in the formation of the American Film Institute.