Friday, Jan. 13, 1967

Born. To Hoda Nasser, 23, eldest daughter of United Arab Republic President Gamal Abdel Nasser, and Hattem Sadek, 24, a presidential aide: their first child, a daughter; in Cairo.

Married. Ellsworth Bunker, 72, U.S. Ambassador-at-Large and the man whose consummate diplomacy was largely responsible for bringing an end to the 1965-66 Dominican crisis; and Carol C. Laise, 49, U.S. Ambassador to Nepal, one of five U.S. women to hold ambassadorial rank; she for the first time, he for the second, and the first ever for two U.S. Ambassadors; in Katmandu, Nepal, where Bunker will make his headquarters between trouble-shooting missions around the world.

Divorced. Lee Marvin, 42, one of Hollywood's better bad guys, who won a 1965 Oscar for Cat Ballon; by Betty Edeling Marvin, 38; on grounds of mental cruelty, after 14 years of marriage, four children; in Santa Monica, Calif.

Died. Raoul Levy, 44, penny-ante French film producer, who made a mint out of Brigitte Bardot in And God Created Woman, after which the law of averages straightened out; by his own hand (16-gauge shotgun); in Saint-Tropez, France (see SHOW BUSINESS).

Died. Donald Campbell, 45, British speed seeker; in the crack-up of his jet-powered boat; on Coniston Water, England (see SPORT).

Died. Boris Krajger, 52, Vice Premier of Yugoslavia and architect of the 1965 economic reforms (currency devaluation, reduced price controls) designed to foster competition on the world market, a Communist since student days who escaped from an Italian concentration camp to join Tito's partisans in 1943 and marched with them to power; when his car skidded into a tree; in Sremska Mitrovica, Yugoslavia.

Died. Mohammed Khider, 53, exiled Algerian opposition leader, a pragmatic nationalist who was one of the major rebel chiefs in the eight-year war of independence against France, later as Secretary-General of the ruling F.L.N. Party opposed too close liaisons with Soviet and Chinese Communists, a stand that, among other reasons, eventually alienated him from his colleagues to the point where he fled the country in 1964 with $14 million in party funds and spent his hours plotting to overthrow first Ben Bella, and then his successor Boumediene; of bullet wounds inflicted by an unknown assassin; in Madrid.

Died. John Joseph Keane, 55, baseball manager, the cool, unassuming tactician, who in 1964, after three futile years as field boss of the St. Louis Cardinals, was about to be fired, thereupon performed a minor miracle by leading his Redbirds to a National League pennant and a World Series victory over the American League's New York Yankees, after which the losers gleefully hired him away at $45,000 per, a triumph of justice that swiftly turned to dust when the disintegrating Yanks finished sixth in 1965, plummeted to last at the start of 1966 and the New York management summarily fired Keane; of a heart attack; in Houston. The Yanks, let it be remembered, still finished last.

Died. Jack Ruby, 55, convicted slayer of Presidential Assassin Lee Harvey Oswald; of a pulmonary embolism; in Dallas (see THE NATION).

Died. Christian A. Herter, 71, Secretary of State under President Eisenhower from 1959 to 1961; of a pulmonary embolism; in Washington, D.C. (see THE NATION).

Died. Lorena Chipman Fletcher, 78, "Mother of the Year" in 1965, who believed that "Youngsters expect a little discipline," neither spared the rod nor spoiled the brood of five boys and a girl, saw her sons become president of the University of Utah, vice president of Western Electric, vice president of Sandia Corp., professor of mathematics at Brigham Young University, and a top researcher for NASA; of liver disease; in Salt Lake City.

Died. Albert Monroe Greenfield, 79, head of City Stores Co. (Manhattan's W. & J. Sloane and 131 other stores in 19 states) from 1932 until his retirement in 1959, a shrewd Ukrainian-born entrepreneur who added another star to the galaxy of U.S. success stories by building a real estate (largely in Philadelphia) and retailing business that today grosses $850 million annually and provided him with a fortune estimated at close to $100 million; of cancer; in Philadelphia.

Died. Ormond E. Hunt, 83, auto engineer, who in 1923 designed the first General Motors Chevrolet to compete successfully with Ford's Model T, incorporating such features as automatic windshield wipers, an electric horn and a longer, more stylish body, was duly awarded a vice-presidency by Alfred P. Sloan Jr., and continued to serve G.M. as a company director and technical troubleshooter, most notably during World War II, when he played a major role in converting auto production lines to tanks, trucks and planes; of cancer; in Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit.

Died. Mary Garden, 92, prima donna of the opera from the 1900s to the 1930s; of pneumonia; in Aberdeen, Scotland (see MUSIC).

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