MARRIED. Lucie Desiree Arnaz, 28, daughter of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, who played a flaky lyricist in the Broadway musical They're Playing Our Song; and Actor Laurence Luckinbill, 45; both for the second time; in Kingston, N.Y.

MARRIED. Fred Astaire, 81, whose smooth stepping with such partners as Ginger Rogers and Cyd Charisse has graced 50 movies; and Robyn Smith, 37, jockey; in his Beverly Hills home; he for the second time, she for the first.

DIED. Sanjay Gandhi, 33, son of and closest adviser to India's Prime Minister Indira Gandhi; in a crash of his acrobatic plane; in New Delhi (see WORLD).

DIED. Paul Hall, 65, gruff labor leader who helped build the Seafarers International Union, then became its president in 1957; of cancer; in New York City.

DIED. Carey McWilliams, 74, energetic advocate of the underprivileged, author of 14 books, most of them on American class and ethnic injustice, and for 20 years, until 1975, editor of the liberal weekly the Nation; of cancer; in New York.

DIED. Clyfford Still, 75, uncompromising American painter of gigantic, abstract expressionist canvases who was determined to pursue an American art form free from the "sterile conclusions of Western European decadence"; of cancer; in Baltimore.

DIED. Helen Gahagan Douglas, 79, actress-turned-politician who as a Democratic Congresswoman from California lost a notoriously bitter U.S. Senate campaign in 1950 to a young Republican named Richard Nixon; of cancer; in Manhattan. The election battle, in which Nixon's attacks on his liberal opponent for being "soft on Communism" first earned him the epithet "Tricky Dick," ended Douglas' political career. She rarely spoke about her onetime foe afterward, but her husband, Actor Melvyn Douglas, was less reticent: "A little, sneaky kind of character."

DIED. Jose Iturbi, 84, Spanish pianist and conductor who popularized classical music by performing in a medley of 1940s movies like A Song to Remember (1945); of coronary disease; in Los Angeles.

DIED. Varahagiri Venkata Giri, 85, India's Brahman-born fourth President (1969-74), a fierce trade unionist and pacifist dubbed the "genial militant" by the Western press and friend of such revolutionaries as Eamon de Valera and Mohandas Gandhi; of a heart attack; in Madras.

DIED. David Burpee, 87, horticulturist whose mail order seed business, W. Atlee Burpee Co., developed the first commercially available tomato, cantaloupe and cucumber hybrids and sold 1,400 varieties of plants; in Doylestown, Pa.

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