Monday, Jun. 28, 1976
Married. Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf, 30, and German-born Silvia Sommerlath, 32; both for the first time; in Stockholm (see THE WORLD).
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Marriage Revealed. Cynthia Gregory, 29, America's foremost prima ballerina, currently in voluntary exile; and John Hemminger, 34, formerly the manager of singer Tim Hardin; she for the second time, he for the first; in Santo Domingo.
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Died. Oliver J. Carter, 65, former chief justice of the U.S. District Court for Northern California and the man who presided, in a firm, folksy way, over the trial of Patricia Hearst; of a heart attack; in San Francisco. A Northern California patrician who was also a longtime Hearst family acquaintance, Carter won high marks for fairness and impartiality during the complicated trial, which found Patty guilty of bank robbery and felony possession of firearms.
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Died. Taft B. Schreiber, 68, art collector, Republican Party fund raiser and executive committee member of MCA Inc.; of complications following a blood transfusion; in Los Angeles. Originally an office boy, Schreiber organized MCA's motion picture division, now Universal Pictures. He raised money for Richard Nixon and former California Governor Ronald Reagan. Several years ago, he switched allegiance to President Gerald Ford and, at the time of his death, was national co-chairman of the President Ford Committee, a fund-raising group.
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Died. Artemus L. Gates, 80, banker, business consultant, Government servant and for 34 years a director of Time Inc.; following a lengthy illness; on Long Island. Born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Gates graduated from Yale in 1918 and was thrice decorated in World War I. In 1929, at the age of 33, he became president of New York Trust (now part of Chemical Bank). He joined Time's board in 1931, and in World War II served as an Assistant Secretary, then as Under Secretary, of the Navy.
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Died. Harald T. Friis, 83, radio-communications pioneer whose work helped make possible, among other things, modern radio reception and microwave transmission; of a stroke; in Palo Alto, Calif. Born in Denmark, Friis became a leading research scientist with the Bell System, eventually holding 25 patents, including one for the famous horn-reflector antenna of microwave systems first used in satellite communication. Highly regarded as a teacher of other scientists, Friis also supervised the work of the late Karl Jansky, founder of radio astronomy.
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