Married. Princess Desiree, 26, granddaughter of Sweden's Gustaf VI Adolf; and Baron Niclas Silfverschiold, 29, wealthy Swedish gentleman farmer; in a Lutheran ceremony attended by Scandinavia's Who's Who; in Stockholm.

Married. Theodore Chaikin Sorensen, 36, confidant, counselor and speechwriter for John F. Kennedy from 1953 to 1963; and Sarah Ann Elbery, 31, petite Boston schoolteacher; he for the second time; in Manhattan. They met in 1958 when both worked on Kennedy's senatorial campaign in Boston, and their friendship flowered when she took a job in Washington in 1961 and accompanied Ted on summer trips to Cape Cod.

Divorced. Xavier Cugat, 64, roly-poly king of Latin swing; by Abbe Lane, 32, wiggly-jiggly singer who joined "Coogie's" conga line in 1950; after twelve years of marriage, no children; on grounds of incompatibility; in Juarez, Mexico.

Died. Matthew Michael Fox, 53, Hollywood's own version of the wheeler-dealer, who in the early 1940s turned nearly bankrupt Universal Pictures into a $7,000,000-a-year profitmaker by luring away stars from other studios, made a further killing by selling old movies to TV, later gained control of Skiatron, which pioneered pay TV, and finally went international in 1948 by persuading the newborn Republic of Indonesia to make him its U.S. trade broker, a deal involving $150 million a year before it collapsed in 1950; of a heart attack; in Manhattan.

Died. Leo Szilard, 66, famed physicist, who with Enrico Fermi in 1942 triggered the world's first nuclear chain reaction and thus made possible the atomic bomb; of a heart attack; in La Jolla, Calif. A Hungarian-Jewish refugee from Hitler's persecutions, Szilard foresaw as early as 1939 the possibility of uranium bombs, persuaded Einstein to lend his famous name to a letter to President Roosevelt in which he pointed out the danger that Germany might beat the U.S. to such a weapon; once his advice was heeded and the bomb developed, Szilard looked with regret upon the monster he had helped unleash, worked incessantly for disarmament and peaceful uses for nuclear energy.

Died. Catherine Evans Whitener, 83, who at the age of 15 snipped off each bit of yarn as it came through the cloth of a bedspread she was making, thus inventing the tufted bedspread, something that has since become one of Georgia's largest industries as mass production built up tufted textiles into a $500 million-a-year business; of cancer; in Dalton, Ga.

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