Married. Fumiko Higashikuni, 21, eldest granddaughter of Japan's Emperor Hirohito; and Kazutoshi Omura, 28, an executive with Hitachi Metals, Ltd.; in a Shinto ceremony; in Tokyo.

Died. Edward H. Litchfield, 53, chancellor of the University of Pittsburgh from 1955 to 1965, while also holding down the board chairmanship of S.C.M. (Smith-Corona Marchant) Corp. and a handful of other executive positions; when the light plane carrying him, his mother, his wife and two children, and a pilot crashed into Lake Michigan. Steeped in administration as a top aide to Lucius Clay during the occupation of Germany, Litchfield was dean of Cornell's business school in 1955 when Pitt chose him as chancellor; in no time, he had kicked off a $126 million program to expand the campus, nearly double the faculty, and vastly improve the school's academic reputation. Such dynamism--though it left Pitt with a $19.5 million deficit by the time Litchfield departed--spilled over into industry, where he was a director of Avco and Studebaker Corp. and, from 1956 on, head of S.C.M., where he assembled a management team that lifted the typewriter maker out of the red to profits that hit $23.6 million last year.

Died. Major General Jiso Yamaguchi, 53, a deputy commander of Japan's Air Serf-Defense Force who had been called upon last week to answer charges that one of his subordinates passed secrets to Hughes Aircraft Co. to help it bid for defense contracts; by his own hand (an overdose of sleeping pills); in Tokyo. "I am solely to blame for everything," he wrote. "I will apologize by killing myself."

Died. General Charles Ailleret, 61, France's top soldier, chairman of the Chiefs of Staff and builder of his country's nuclear force de frappe; when his military DC-6 crashed on takeoff from the Indian Ocean island of Reunion, killing 19 aboard, including his wife and daughter. Placed in charge of developing a French Abomb, Ailleret orchestrated the project that succeeded in detonating a low-yield plutonium device in the Sahara in 1960; as Chief of Staff, he planned the "all azimuths" strategy, in which France seeks the ability to deliver nuclear weapons to any point on earth.

Died. Marion Griffin Zeckendorf, 62, second wife of Manhattan real estate Wheeler-Dealer William Zeckendorf; in the so far inexplicable (clear weather, no apparent mechanical difficulty) crash of an Air France Boeing 707 while landing at the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe, killing all 63 aboard. A gracious Georgia lady who professed never to understand her husband's operations (though some of his properties were in her name), she devoted herself to charity, raising funds for everything from ballet to the A.S.P.C.A.

Died. Pierre Rey, 70, financial adviser to Prince Rainier and president of Monaco's controlling Societe des Bains de Mer from 1953 to 1959, chairman since 1963; of cancer; in Monaco. As boss of the S.B.M., which includes the casino, the yacht club the Hotel de Paris and about one-third of Monaco's 375 acres, Rey was Rainier's lieutenant in the long struggle with Aristotle Onassis that ended last year when the government paid $8,000,000 for Onassis' interests in the casino company.

Died. Frank Erickson, 72, "King of the Bookies," who for some 30 years operated a $12 million-a-year gambling business behind the front of a Manhattan florist; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. To New York's Fiorello La Guardia he was a "tinhorn punk"; but to thousands of horseplayers Erickson was the giant of U.S. gambling, handling some $33,000 a day in bets until he was convicted of illegal gambling in 1950 and tax evasion in 1953.

Died. Benjamin Harrison Dirksen, 73, the Senator's older brother, who stayed in Illinois with Ev's twin brother, Thomas, to help run the family bakery; of a heart attack; in Pekin, Ill.

Died. Joseph Martin, 83, twice House Speaker and G.O.P. floor leader from 1939 to 1959 (see THE NATION).

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