William M. Duke; Executive Turned Around Troubled Firms

William M. Duke, 76, a corporate executive who specialized in turning around troubled firms. Duke, who most recently had his own consulting company, He served on various boards of directors including International Controls Corp., Teleflora, Erly Industries and many others. In the 1980s he figured in the financial reconstruction of Santa Monica-based Compucorp and prior to that headed Monrovia-based Micro-Z Corp. and Rusco Industries Inc. of Los Angeles. In Santa Monica on Sunday of pancreatic cancer.