Monday, Mar. 20, 1972

Married. Maria del Carmen Martinez-Bordiu Franco, 21, eldest granddaughter of Generalissimo Francisco Franco; and Don Alfonso de Borbon y Dampierre , 35, diplomat and grand son of Spain 's last king, Alfonso XIII; in Madrid.

Married. Brian Priestman, 45, English-born conductor of the Denver Symphony Orchestra and former musical director of the Royal Shakespeare Theater at Stratford-on-Avon; and Mary-Ford Stockton McClave; both for the first time; in Berkeley, Calif.

Died. Yaacov Herzog, 50, Israeli diplomat and foreign affairs adviser; of a stroke; in Jerusalem. An ordained rabbi and graduate lawyer, Herzog was an intelligence expert in the underground before Israel became independent. Afterward he quietly served a succession of prime ministers. He was David Ben-Gurion's closest counselor during the 1956 Suez-Sinai campaign, and following the war used his cordial relationship with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles to help resolve U.S.-Israeli differences. Herzog was director-general of the Premier's office for Levi Eshkol and Golda Meir, service that earned him the sobriquet "the Henry Kissinger of Israel."

Died. Richard Church, 78, English poet, novelist and critic; of a heart attack; in Kent, England. As a young man, Church entered the customs service to support himself while he wrote at night. He was so hard up that he sometimes brought home the food samples that had been sent to customs for analysis. He eventually won recognition and published more than 50 books of fiction, poetry and essays. His best-known novel The Porch (1937) and his 1955 autobiography Over the Bridge were widely praised.

Died. Basil O'Connor, 80, founder of the March of Dimes; in Phoenix. Research into the cause and treatment of polio was a poorly financed, haphazard affair when O'Connor and his crippled law partner Franklin D. Roosevelt founded the Warm Springs, Ga., therapy center in 1927. This led to the formation eleven years later of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, with O'Connor as its chief. The organization raised $870 million for treatment and research and sponsored the development of vaccines by Jonas Salk and Albert Sabin. Though he also served as president of the American National Red Cross for a time, O'Connor made the National Foundation his life's work. With the threat of polio virtually eliminated by the early '60s, the foundation turned to combatting birth defects and arthritis.

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