Friday, Jun. 25, 1965

Born. To Juan Carlos, 27, son of Spanish Pretender Don Juan, and Princess Sophie, 26, sister of Greece's King Constantine: their second child, second daughter; in Madrid.

Married. Diane Dow Buchanan, 21, daughter of former U.S. Chief of Protocol (1957-61) Wiley T. Buchanan and great-granddaughter of the founder of Dow Chemical Co.; and John Traina Jr., 33, American President shipping line manager; in a Methodist ceremony boycotted by her father, who disapproves of the match; in Washington.

Married. Rosemary Pusey, 23, daughter of Harvard's president Nathan M. Pusey; and David Stephen Hopkins, 21, Stanford University graduate student; in Cambridge, Mass.

Married. Sybil Burton, 36, Richard's silvery-haired ex, currently hostess `a-go-go of Arthur, Manhattan discotheque; and Jordan Christopher (ne Zankoff), 24, rag-mopped leader of the Wild Ones, the club's rock-along band; both for the second time; in Manhattan. Ventured the groom's father, an Akron saloonkeeper: "I don't know what Sybil saw in him. Whatever it is, I'd like to know."

Married. Pierre Salinger, 40, slimmer but still stout former U.S. Senator and presidential press secretary, now vice president of National General Corp., a movie-theater firm; and Nicole Gillman, 26, a pretty, French magazine reporter who met him eight months ago during his unsuccessful campaign for the Senate; he for the third time; in a Paris civil ceremony three days after being divorced by Nancy Brook Joy, 37, his wife of eight years.

Divorced. By Dorothy Collins, 38, high-collared Hit Parader of the mid-1950s, now doing summer stock: Raymond Scott, 54, the program's bandleader; on uncontested grounds of cruelty ("His criticism gave me asthma"); after 13 years of marriage, two children; in Santa Monica, Calif.

Died. George Melachrino, 56, British orchestra leader who made it big in the late 1940s and '50s by putting violins into the big-band bounce with his 40-piece Melachrino Strings, sold more than 3,000,000 albums and started the rash of "music for . . ." records, among them his Music for Reading, Music for Relaxation, Music for Inspiration; of an apparent heart attack; in London.

Died. Balfour Bowen Thorn Lord, 58, Democratic Party chief in New Jersey since 1961 and chairman for 17 years of powerful Mercer County (which includes Trenton), a skillful organizer who in 1954 was widely credited with electing Governor Robert B. Meyner after ten years of Republican rule, but proved less successful himself in 1960 when he ran for the U.S. Senate against Clifford Case, losing by 335,861 votes (while President Kennedy won the state by 22,091), after which he helped his former law partner Richard Hughes win the governorship in 1962; by his own hand (depressed by his estrangement from Second Wife Nina Underwood, he garroted himself with an electric-shaver cord); in Princeton, N.J.

Died. Burr Shafer, 65, cartoonist, whose wry historical satires (Says an innkeeper to a soldier: "And if you're not out by 12 o'clock, General Washington, I'll have to charge you for another day") moved President Harry Truman to write "I'm very proud that I'm smart enough to get the point"; of a pulmonary embolism; in Orange, Calif.

Died. Dr. Ichiro Ohga, 82, known throughout Japan as "Dr. Lotus" for his lifelong experiments with lotus plants, who won worldwide notice in 1952 when he succeeded in making a 2,000-year-old seed blossom into a beautiful pink flower and nursed the plant back to such health that it is still alive in a Kemigawa botanical garden dedicated to him; of a stroke; in Tokyo.

Died. Carl Lukas Norden, 85, inventor of World War II's famed Norden bombsight, a Dutch engineer who in 1904 emigrated to the U.S., in the early 1920s developed the first successful plane-arresting gear for U.S. aircraft carriers (the Saratoga and Lexington), with partner Theodore H. Barth was commissioned by the Navy to devise a better bombsight and in 1939 finally produced a compact (12 in. by 19 in.), though enormously complex, $25,000 instrument so precise that U.S. bombardiers could, as they loved to brag, literally "hit a pickle barrel from 20,000 ft."; of pneumonia; in Zurich, Switzerland.

Died. Hans von Kaltenborn, 86, the nation's most popular radio news commentator in the 1930s and '40s; of heart disease; in Manhattan (see PRESS).

Died. Dr. Martin Buber, 87, renowned Jewish philosopher, theologian and poet; of uremia followed by a stroke; in Jerusalem (see RELIGION).

Died. Simpson Mann, 98, oldest veteran of the Indian wars (1876-91), who joined the U.S. cavalry for "$12.50 a month, fat meat and six hardtacks a meal," fought Chief Sitting Bull's Sioux including the ugly 1890 massacre at Wounded Knee Creek, where some 300 Sioux men, women and children who had surrendered were suddenly slaughtered by jittery white troops; of heart disease; in Wadsworth, Kans.

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