Monday, Jun. 29, 1970
Married. Lieut. Commander Thomas Mattingly II, 34, astronaut who missed the Apollo 13 moonflight because of exposure to measles; and Elizabeth Dailey, 34, school counselor; both for the first time; in San Antonio.
Died. Asa A. Allen, 59, fire-breathing evangelist and faith healer; of an as yet undetermined cause; in San Francisco. Only days before his death, Allen mailed letters and made radio broadcasts refuting rumors that he was dead. Many of those letters arrived after his actual death; now Allen's associates are left with the problem of informing his followers of the final truth.
Died. Hortense Powdermaker, 69, a noted anthropologist whose studies ranged from Stone Age Melanesians and Rhodesian copper miners to Mississippi blacks and whites and Hollywood moviemakers; of a heart attack; in Berkeley, Calif. "Hollywood shouts to be satirized--I want to understand it," she said before heading West in 1947; three years of research produced The Dream Factory, that depicted a totalitarian society in which people were property, and power an end in itself.
Died. Sukarno, 69, founding father and first President of Indonesia (see THE WORLD).
Died. Charles P. McCormick, 74, spice king whose McCormick & Co. dominates the U.S. market; of a heart attack; in Baltimore. Taking over his uncle's firm in 1932, McCormick expanded the business until now it is a $109 million operation; a major innovation was his "multiple management" system, under which various parts of the firm (sales, production, etc.) each elect a board to work with the top bosses.
Died. Dr. Sydney Chapman, 82, British physicist and chief coordinator of the International Geophysical Year, I.G.Y. 1957-58; of a heart attack; in Boulder, Colo. Widely acclaimed for his studies of the sun, most notably his theory explaining how solar eruptions cause magnetic storms and auroral displays on earth. Chapman displayed an almost equal genius as manager and coordinator of I.G.Y., which engaged many thousands of scientists in a worldwide cooperative study of planet Earth.
Died. Robert Maclver, 88, sociologist and author, onetime president (1956-61) of Manhattan's New School for Social Research; in Manhattan. Maclver rose to fame in the 1920s as a humanist in an age of behaviorists. In his numerous books analyzing U.S. democracy (The Ramparts We Guard, Leviathan and the People, Power Transformed), he insisted that in sociology the search for meaning should be paramount.
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