Engaged. Rod Steiger, 47, Hollywood's intense, burly character actor (Al Capone, The Pawnbroker, In the Heat of the Night); and Sherry Nelson. 36, his secretary. It will be his third marriage, her second. -

Married. James Edward Lascelles. 19, second son of the Earl of Harewood (the Queen's cousin) and 20th in line of succession to the British throne; and Freddy Duhrssen, 19, American student and member of a Suffolk commune; both for the first time; in Wortham, England. Lascelles, organist for a rock group called the Global Village Trucking Company, and Duhrssen met more than a year ago and, according to the bride, "fell restaurant." in love in a vegetarian

Died. Eliot Elisofon, 61, staff photographer for LIFE from 1942 until the mid-'60s; following a stroke; in Manhattan. "I wanted to point a camera," Elisofon once said, "at things that I thought needed attention." Quitting a career as a commercial photographer, he covered World War II for LIFE in Africa as well as in the Arctic, Europe and the Pacific. A camera artist who had a unique mastery of color, Elisofon had a particular passion for the Dark Continent and its artifacts, which he lovingly recorded in his 1958 book The Sculpture of Africa.

Died. Ian Douglas Campbell, 69, eleventh Duke of Argyll and hereditary chief of Scotland's clan Campbell; following a stroke; in Edinburgh. After succeeding to the dukedom in 1949, Campbell shocked his fellow peers by opening the family estate at Inveraray Castle to paying visitors, then appearing in a U.S. magazine ad campaign as a kilt-clad salesman for Argyll socks.

Married four times, the duke made more headlines with his 1963 divorce from Wife No. 3, Margaret Whigham Sweeny Campbell, which became the most expensive divorce case ($140,000 in legal fees) in Scotland's history.

Died. Herbert Graf, 69, scholarly, soft-spoken stage director of New York's Metropolitan Opera (1936-60), whose consistently successful productions in the U.S. and Europe made him one of the opera world's most sought-after regisseurs; of cancer; in Geneva, Switzerland.

Died. Dr. Louis N. Katz, 75, former president (1951-52) of the American Heart Association and pioneering researcher into the causes and treatment of cardiovascular disease, who in 1960 directed the first Heart Association committee to draft an official statement linking heart disease to heavy cigarette smoking; of kidney failure; in Chicago.

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