Divorced. By Jill St. John, 28, an eternal starlet (Tony Rome) with more talent for marrying (three times) than acting: Jack Jones, 31, television and nightclub singer; after 16 months of marriage, no children; in Juarez, Mexico.

Divorced. Orval E. Faubus, 59, flamboyant ex-Governor of Arkansas, who recently became president and general manager of Dogpatch U.S.A., the lush Ozark park created by Al Capp; by Alta Faubus, 56; on uncontested grounds of "abuse and steady neglect"; after 37 years of marriage, one son (Attorney Farrell, who filed the suit for his mother); in Huntsville, Ark.

Died. Saud ibn Abdul Aziz al Faisal al Saud, 67, deposed monarch of Saudi Arabia (see THE WORLD).

Died. John Boles, 73, robust baritone who became one of the first matinee idols of the talkies when his booming voice reverberated across the dunes in The Desert Song (1929), later starred in the Broadway musical smash One Touch of Venus (1943); of a heart attack; in San Angelo, Texas.

Died. Levi Eshkol, 73, third Premier of Israel (see THE WORLD).

Died. Dr. Carsun Chang, 82, longtime leader of China's "third force" movement, an amorphous coalition of intellectuals that for 20 years vainly sought to establish a democratic alternative to either Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomingtang or the Communists; in Berkeley, Calif.

Died. Dr. Karl Jaspers, 86, eminent German philosopher, whose explorations into the nature of man established him as one of the foremost existentialist thinkers of his day; after a long illness; in Basel, Switzerland. Jaspers was a trained psychiatrist with deep spiritual convictions and a profound faculty for logic. Yet he considered science, religion, and reason incapable of elucidating man's complexities, holding that man can only grasp his authentic Being through confrontation with the vicissitudes of life. Like Kierkegaard, Jaspers embraced the Judeo-Christian belief that "however minute a quantity the individual may be among the factors that make history, he is a factor." Such inwardly directed views led him in 1947 to write The Question of German Guilt, which outraged many of his countrymen for its theme of collective culpability for World War II, and he left Germany in 1949 to teach at Basel University. Most of his works were agonizingly abstruse and seemingly preoccupied with reconciliation to failure and death as prescriptions for personal salvation. But The Perennial Scope of Philosophy (1949) was both a definitive defense of his own existentialist position and a vigorous affirmation of the durability of the human spirit.

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