Monday, Aug. 14, 1972

Married. Patty Duke, 25, who nine years ago became the youngest actress to win an Academy Award (for her portrayal of Helen Keller in The Miracle Worker); and John Astin, 42, who found greater success in television comedy (The Addams Family, I'm Dickens . . . He's Fenster) than in movies (Viva Max, Candy); she for the third time, he for the second; in Washington, D.C.

Married. Magda Gabor, fiftyish, eldest and most seldom seen of the three Gabor sisters; and Tiber Heltai, 52, economic consultant; she for the sixth time, he for the second; in Southampton, L.I. Magda's most recent spouse was the late actor George Sanders, an early husband of sister Zsa Zsa's.

Married. Abraham Ribicoff, 62, senior U.S. Senator from Connecticut, former state Governor and Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare under President Kennedy; and Lois Mell Mathes, 50, Miami civic leader; she for the third time, he for the second; in Washington, D.C.

Died. Paul Goodman, 60, maverick social theorist whose bestselling Growing Up Absurd attacked societal foundations and became a handbook for the alienated young (see EDUCATION).

Died. Paul-Henri Spaak, 73, a great-spirited man from a small country, whose passionate vision and eloquence made him both part architect and chief prophet of a united Europe; of kidney disease; in Brussels. Though he did not live to see the political European union he envisioned, he could take major credit for a new feeling and policy of common concern among Europe's oft-warring nations. Trained in law, Spaak was first elected to the Belgian parliament in 1932 as a Socialist; by 1938 he had become his country's youngest Prime Minister. When Belgium fell to the Nazis in 1940, Spaak fled to London and returned after the war to Belgium to serve twice more as Prime Minister, six times as Foreign Minister. Churchillian in looks and sometimes in rhetoric, he was in 1944 a major author of the United Nations Charter, then became the General Assembly's first President. Five years later he helped found the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, and from 1955 to 1957 he served as chairman of the Treaties of Rome negotiations, which, thanks to his conciliation of a reluctant France, created the Common Market. "I travel a lot, but every time I come back and my plane approaches the coast of Europe, I am seized with the same tenderness and emotion," he once reflected. "Here, in this Europe of ours that we try to unite, life is truly made for man and to fit his measure."

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