Married. James Taylor, 24, minstrel of rock music who helped lead devotees of the high-decibel '60s toward gentler sounds in the '70s (Sweet Baby James, Fire and Rain, Mud Slide Slim); and Carly Simon, 27, leggy singer of the slick-folk, gutsy-ballad school (That's the Way I've Always Heard It Should Be, Anticipation) and offspring of the publishing Simon (& Schuster); both for the first time; in Manhattan.

Died. Lieut. Colonel Aryeh Tuvia, 58, scrappy international soldier of fortune who became a hero of the Israeli army; in a parachuting accident; in Zaire, Africa. Born in Austria and commissioned an officer in that country's army, Tuvia joined the French Foreign Legion before he was 21. He entered Palestine in 1938, joined the British army there and fought in North Africa during World War II. After returning to Palestine, Tuvia joined the Israelis during their war for independence and later, during the 1956 Sinai conflict, fought behind Egyptian lines. In 1963, he went to Nepal as an Israeli military adviser and was serving in the same capacity in Zaire at the time of his death.

Died. Edward V. Long, 64, drawling, country-suited Democratic Senator from Missouri (1960-68), friend of Teamster Chief Jimmy Hoffa and crusader against Government wiretapping; after a heart attack; in Brookhill, Mo. Long was Missouri's Lieutenant Governor when he was appointed to fill the unexpired term of the late Senator Thomas Hennings. After a few quiet years in Washington, Long emerged as an energetic opponent of Government bugging, a passion he shared with Hoffa, who claimed that he had been framed by the Justice Department. In 1966 Long marshaled support for the Freedom of Information Act, giving private citizens access to their Government records. The next year LIFE accused Long of making unethical use of his office in behalf of Hoffa, then in prison. After the expose, Long lost the 1968 senatorial primary by less than 20,000 votes to Missouri's 38-year-old Lieutenant Governor, Thomas Eagleton.

Died. Reginald Owen, 85, veteran character actor who played stuffy English aristocrats in scores of films and stage plays; after a series of strokes; in Boise, Idaho. The son of an English brick maker, Owen came to the U.S. in the mid-1920s, and by 1929 had starred in his first Hollywood movie. In addition to his usual roles as upper-crusty Englishmen, he appeared as Sherlock Holmes in A Study in Scarlet (1933), a film for which he did his own screenplay, as Ebenezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol (1938); and as the scheming politician in Affairs of State (1950).

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