Monday, Dec. 06, 1976

Separated. Barry M. Goldwater Jr., 38, Republican Congressman from California and son of the Arizona Senator; and Susan Gherman Goldwater, 29, a former model and now a member of a Washington-based international real estate firm; after four years of marriage, one son.

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Died. Rupert Davies, 59, star of the popular BBC television series based on the adventures of Maigret; of cancer; in London. Davies' career began in a German prisoner-of-war camp during World War II, when he acted in troop shows. The BBC signed him in 1960 to play Maigret, the pipe-smoking French detective created by Novelist Georges Simenon. For his portrayal of Maigret, Davies was chosen British Actor of the Year in 1961

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Died. Fernando Maria Castiella y Maiz, 68, Spanish Foreign Minister from 1957 until his ouster during a Cabinet shake-up in 1969; following a heart attack; in Madrid. Tall and powerfully built, Castiella fought with Franco's Blue Division shock troops alongside Nazi forces on the Russian front during World War II. As head of the Foreign Ministry, Castiella earned a reputation as a stubborn negotiator; he repeatedly drove tough bargains with the U.S. over military-base leases and doggedly--though unsuccessfully--strove to retrieve Gibraltar from British rule. Toward the end of his career, Castiella came under increasing criticism for devoting insufficient attention to Spain's relations with European and Third World nations.

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Died. Andre Malraux, 75, modern-day Renaissance man whose accomplishments included writing, archaeology, soldiering and serving as French Minister of Culture (see THE WORLD).

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Died. Herbert Van Walker, 77, hard-line California superior court judge who sent 19 men to death row in 16 years on the bench; following a heart attack; in Newport Beach, Calif. Avuncular in appearance, Walker reduced just one of his death penalties to life imprisonment. However, only one of the men he sentenced to die ever went to the gas chamber: Convict-Author Caryl Chessman, whom Walker ordered executed in 1960 for a robbery and rape committed in 1948. The best-known survivor of a Walker death sentence is Robert F. Kennedy's assassin, Sirhan Sirhan.

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Died. Trofim Denisovich Lysenko, 78, doctrinaire chief of the Soviet science establishment under Joseph Stalin whose half-baked genetic experiments and theories were later denounced as fraudulent (see SCIENCE).

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