Friday, Sep. 07, 1962
Born. To King Hassan II, 33, monarch of Morocco, and his wife, Latifa, 15, daughter of a prominent Berber family: their first child, a girl; in Rome (see THE WORLD).
Married. David John McDonald Jr., 23, student playwright at the Yale School of Drama and son of the president of the United Steelworkers of America; and Marilyn Marie Knudsen, 23, a fellow Yale drama student ; in Manhattan.
Married. Edwin O'Connor, 44, Boston Irish novelist whose bestsellers include The Last Hurrah and The Edge of Sadness; and Veniette Weil, 37, a Washington, D.C. divorcee; he for the first time, she for the second; in Boston.
Married. Yousuf Karsh, 53, Armenian-born, Canadian-based portrait photographer; and Estrellita Maria Nachbar, 34, Chicago medical research assistant; he for the second time, she for the first; in Manhattan.
Married. John Alex McCone, 60, director of the Central Intelligence Agency and former chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission; and Theiline McGee Pigott, 59, widow of Seattle Industrialist Paul Pigott and a friend of McCone's since college days at the University of California; both for the second time (McCone's wife died last year after 23 years of marriage); in Seattle.
Death Discovered. Peter Wallace, 19, Yale University junior and son of TV Interviewer Mike Wallace, missing on a European hiking vacation since Aug. 4; when his body was found at the base of a steep ravine near Corinth, Greece.
Died. Kenneth Walter Tyler, 51, test pilot, nerveless Hollywood stuntman and soldier of fortune, who intentionally crashed 144 planes for the movies in the '30s, flew for the Spanish Loyalists in 1936, downed 22 Japanese planes with the Flying Tigers in World War II -- but always insisted his most harrowing experience was flying the 347 miles from San Francisco to Los Angeles upside down; in the crash of his 1940 Waco biplane, while doing low-altitude stunts; in Henderson, Ky.
Died. Giovanni Achille Gaggia, 66, onetime Milanese cafe owner who put the press in espresso coffee in 1936 by adding a mechanical lever to his old drip machine to pressure hot water, steam and coffee into the thick syrupy brew that became an Italian specialty, after World War II started the first manufacture of pressure coffee machines; of complications following a fall; in Milan.
Died. Sir Eric Vansittart Bowater, 67, British builder of a $600,000.000 pulp and paper empire that began with a small family paper company, eventually became one of the world's largest producers of newsprint, with pulp mills from Sweden to South Carolina; in West Horsley, Surrey.
Died. General Dusan Simovic, 80, iron-willed Yugoslav patriot who led a valiant 1941 coup d'etat that overturned the pro-Nazi regency of Prince Paul for 17 brief days just before Hitler invaded, later headed Yugoslavia's wartime exiled government in London; in seclusion in Belgrade.
Died. Vilhjalmur Stefansson, 82, pioneer Arctic explorer whose painstaking, dogsled investigations of Eskimo life earned him a scholar's reputation as an author (My Life with the Eskimos), anthropologist, and all-round authority on polar life; of a stroke; in Hanover, N.H. Manitoba-born Stefansson spent ten winters and 13 summers from 1904 to 1919 living like an Eskimo while exploring uncharted polar ice fields. In 1911 the wiry explorer made his most important find: a tribe of blonde-haired Eskimos living on Victoria Island, presumably descendants of the Vikings. A writer, lecturer, and curator of the 25,000-volume Stefansson Collection of Polar Literature at Dartmouth College, Stefansson turned out 24 books and 400 magazine articles on the Arctic, arguing that it was not the forbidding land most people thought it was, but a habitable place, full of natural resources. He predicted air travel over the North Pole and submarine traffic under it, but whimsically reminded would-be explorers that if they were to survive in the sub-zero temperatures, they had to learn "to work like a dog and then eat the dog."
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