Married. James Kavanaugh, 38, dis illusioned Roman Catholic, ex-priest anc author (A Modern Priest Looks at His Outdated Church); and Patricia Waiden, 35, a San Diego nurse; in an Episcopal ceremony; in La Jolla, Calif

Married. Dave Beck, 73, erstwhile Teamster boss, who in 1959 drew five-year jail sentence for tax evasion, served 30 months; and Helen Reynolds, 55, longtime friend of his first wife, who died in 1961; she for the first time.

Divorced. By Russell A. Firestone Jr., 41, heir to the tire fortune: Mary Alice Sullivan Firestone, 32, his third wife; a onetime Palm Beach schoolteacher; on grounds of extreme cruelty and adultery; after six years of marriage, one son; in West Palm Beach, Fla. The 17-month intermittent trial produced enough testimony of extramarital adventures on both sides, said the judge, "to make Dr. Freud's hair curl."

Died. Otis Redding, 25, kingfish of soul music; when his light plane crashed into a lake near Madison, Wis. Otis wailed his dirt-raw blues to jazzed-up blasts of trumpets and trombones and cut loose a string of hits (Respect, Try a Little Tenderness) that took soul music out of the ghetto and into the top ten.

Died. Irving Gitlin, 49, producer of some of TV's best documentaries; of leukemia; in Manhattan. A onetime CBS newsman (Twentieth Century), Gitlin switched to NBC in 1960 and filmed his White Paper series on such prickly subjects as U.S. welfare policy, civil rights, and 1964's Cuba, an analysis of the Bay of Pigs invasion that won an Emmy.

Died. Victor de Sabata, 75, longtime (1929-53) artistic director of Milan's La Scala Opera; of heart disease; in Santa Margherita Ligure, Italy. Conducting, he once growled, "is a beastly profession." But no one approached the podium with more single-mindedness than this long-armed maestro who treated orchestras to operatic rages and audiences to athletic conducting, ever disdaining--like his predecessor, Toscanini --the use of a score.

Died. Dr. Henry B. Bigelow, 88, U.S. pioneer in oceanography; of pneumonia; in Concord, Mass. As a Harvard professor in 1930, Bigelow founded what has become one of the nation's biggest oceanographic centers, a vast complex at Woods Hole, Mass., that has charted the Gulf Stream, explained tricks of sonar to the U.S. Navy, now maps the ocean's floor and searches out ways to tap the vast underwater food potential.

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