Died. Dixon Wecter, 44, research director of California's Huntington Library, author of The Saga of American Society, When Johnny Comes Marching Home and other scholarly studies of U.S. history and folkways; of a heart attack; in Sacramento.

Died. Eliel Saarinen, 76, Finnish-born architect, longtime President of the Cranbrook Academy of Art; in Bloomfield Hills, Mich. A painter in his youth, Saarinen won his first success with the elegantly simple Finnish Pavilion at the Paris Exposition of 1900, later designed the Helsinki railroad station and Finland's National Museum. An old friend of Frank Lloyd Wright and functionalism, Saarinen emigrated to the U.S. in 1923, designed (with his son) the Tanglewood Mass, music center and the Des Moines Fine Arts Center, worked unceasingly on his far-seeing city planning schemes.

Died. Metropolitan Theophilus (Fedor Pashkovsky), 76, Russian-born primate of the Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church of North America; in San Francisco. Admitting his church's spiritual dependence on the patriarchate of Moscow, he firmly denied Patriarch Alexei's claims to administrative control.

Died. Dr. Albert Ashton Berg, 77, surgeon and bibliophile, onetime (1946-48) president of the International College of Surgeons; in Manhattan. As a surgeon, Berg pioneered in the radical treatment of stomach and duodenal ulcers (cutting out a large part of the stomach). As a bibliophile, he assembled a treasure in books and manuscripts, donated it to the New York Public Library.

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