Married. Edwin ("Buzz") Aldrin Jr., 45, second man to step on the moon as a member of the 1969 Apollo crew and later the victim of a nervous breakdown described in his autobiography, Return to Earth; and Interior Decorator Beverly Van Zile; both for the second time; in Baja California.

-Died. The Rev. Dallas Tarkenton, 63, Pentecostal Holiness Church minister and father of Minnesota Viking Quarterback Fran Tarkenton; of a heart attack, while watching his son's team lose to the Dallas Cowboys, 17-14, in an N.F.L. play-off game; in Savannah, Ga.

-Died. Euell Gibbons, 64, naturalist, connoisseur of wild foods and cookbook author, who in his writings and numerous television appearances campaigned to popularize a natural diet; of an apparent heart attack; in Sunbury, Pa. Gibbons became a hero of natural-food enthusiasts after the publication of his Stalking the Wild Asparagus in 1962.

While other experts warned of eventual worldwide shortages, Gibbons found wild foods in abundance everywhere. (In a vacant lot in Chicago, he noted 15 different varieties.) In later books like Stalking the Good Life (1971), Gibbons outlined organic menus but warned in an interview that the novice forager should shun mushrooms and "start with raccoon pie and cattail salad. They never hurt anyone."

-Died. Hugh Hutton, 78, acid-penned editorial cartoonist for the Philadelphia Inquirer from 1934 to 1969; following a stroke; in Philadelphia. After studying at the University of Minnesota, he worked for a string of newspapers before joining the then Republican Inquirer. In the 1930s Hutton continually lampooned the New Deal, depicting Franklin Roosevelt as a popeyed, apron-clad cook feeding the American people "campaign soothing syrup."

-Died. Emile-Georges Cuisenaire, 84, creative educator who invented an internationally recognized method of teaching children to count by associating numbers and colors; in Thuin, Belgium.

Cuisenaire, who became the head of his local grade school in Thuin in 1934, retired 13 years later to complete work on his invention and to publish his findings in a book, Nombres En Couleur (1951). Cuisenaire's brainchild was a set of ten different colored wooden rods ranging in length from 1 cm. to 10 cm.

The Cuisenaire rods helped budding arithmeticians learn the basics of addition and subtraction. Example: using sight and touch, a child could tell that a 3-cm. green rod plus a 5-cm. yellow rod equaled an 8-cm. brown rod.

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