Friday, Dec. 08, 1967

Married. Michael P. Goldwater, 27, Barry's boy, a California real estate salesman; and Constance Joan Stockert, 26, former stewardess; in Ross, Calif.

Married. Anthony J. Hope, 27, Bob's son, a business director at 20th Century-Fox Television; and Judith Richards, 26, a classmate of Tony's at Harvard Law; in Defiance, Ohio.

Married. Dr. Timothy Leary, 47, high priest of LSD; and Rosemary Woodruff, 33, his assistant; he for the second time; near Joshua Tree, Calif., on Nov. 11.

Died. Patrick Kavanagh, 62, Irish poet; of pneumonia; in Dublin. Better known for his acid tongue than for his lyric poetry, Kavanagh found modern poetry "pretentious," Emerson "a sugary humbug," Yeats "You can have him." Yet Ireland knew him as one of its strongest talents for such works as "The Great Hunger":

He sat on the railway slope and watched the evening, Too beautifully perfect to use, And his three wishes were three stones too sharp to sit on, Too hard to carve. Three frozen idols of a speechless muse.

Died. Leon Mba, 65, President of the seven-year-old West African republic of Gabon; of cancer; in Paris. As a young nationalist firebrand, Mba (pronounced um-bah) gave his French rulers so many blisters that they accused him of cannibalism in 1938 and sent him into exile. On his return in 1946, he was so well behaved that he was boosted into the presidency after independence in 1960 and rescued by French paratroops when military men attempted a 1964 coup.

Died. John Franklin Carter, 70, author and onetime Washington columnist; of a heart attack; in Washington, D.C. His 30-odd books of politics, economics and biography (La Guardia, Drew Pearson) were always bright, often incisive studies of the times and its men. His syndicated column, "We, The People," written from 1936 to 1948 under the pen name Jay Franklin, crisply and authoritatively chronicled the Roosevelt and Truman Administrations --and Carter scored one notable coup when, almost alone, he predicted HST's 1948 election victory.

Died. Arthur O. Dietz, 74, pioneer in auto installment financing and longtime (1939-60) president of Commercial Investment Trust, nation's largest sales-finance company. More than anyone else, Dietz made "Buy Now, Pay Later" a U.S. byword--starting in 1919 when he set up the auto sales division of C.I.T. to finance car sales, a development that put a rich man's luxury into a workingman's budget and brought C.I.T. to a loan volume of $4.6 billion annually by his retirement.

Died. Dr. Alan T. Waterman, 75, first director of the National Science Foundation; from complications after surgery; in Bethesda, Md. From 1951 to 1963, Waterman channeled federal funds into the oft-neglected but immensely important field of basic research, passing out unrestricted grants for every project from solar observation to microbiology on a yearly budget that rocketed from $3,500,000 to $325 million by the time he stepped down.

Died. Francis Cardinal Spellman, 78, leading prince of the Roman Catholic Church in America (see RELIGION).

Died. Albert Warner, 84, second oldest of the four moviemaking Warner brothers and financial boss of the company until 1956; of cerebral hemorrhage; in Miami Beach, Fla. "Pictures," said Abe to his brothers one day, "ought to be a pretty good business to be in." So in New Castle, Pa., in 1906, the sons of a Polish immigrant butcher bought themselves a nickelodeon theater and by 1917 were cranking out their own silent films, soon moved to New York and then to Hollywood, where the saga went on until 1956, when they sold their controlling interests in Warner Bros, for $22 million.

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