Milestones

MARRIED. Carl Sagan, 46, astronomer, best-selling author (The Dragons of Eden, Broca 's Brain) and host of the PBS-TV series Cosmos; and Ann Druyan, 31, novelist and co-writer of the Cosmos series; he for the third time, she for the first; in Los Angeles. Sagan, who last March divorced his second wife Linda after twelve years of marriage, wrote in the dedication of the book version of Cosmos: "It is my joy to share a planet and an epoch with Annie."

DIED. Barbara Ward, 67, British economist and author who made the case for Western aid to developing Third World countries in such books as The Rich Nations and the Poor Nations (1962) and Progress for a Small Planet (1980); of cancer; in Lodsworth, England. A onetime assistant editor of the Economist and the wife of the Australian diplomat Commander Sir Robert Jackson, Ward became an influential adviser on international economics to U.N. Secretary-General U Thant and to Presidents John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson. The technologically and economically advanced nations "are remaking the face of the earth," she once wrote, but she warned that "by indifference and by a narrowing of the heart," the rich and complacent were in danger of losing contact "with the urgent desires of the great mass of one's fellow men."

DIED. Giuseppe Pella, 79, Italian economist who rose from sharecropper's son to the premiership, and who helped guide his country's economic policy for nearly three decades; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Rome. Resolutely antiCommunist, Pella served as Premier during a critical five-month period in 1953-54 when a border dispute with Yugoslavia over Trieste prompted him to make Italy's only postwar threat to use military force. As Foreign Minister in 1960, he once had a conversation with Nikita Khrushchev in which he rebuffed the Soviet Premier's contentions with a curt "Sorry for you, but the Italian line on foreign policy is superior, thank you."

DIED. Carl Vinson, 97, Georgia Democrat who served longer in the U.S. House of Representatives (50 years, from 1914 to 1965) than any other Congressman in history, and who as chairman of the House Armed Services Committee for 14 years played a major role in the expansion of U.S. military power; of heart disease; in Milledgeville, Ga. A former county judge and Georgia legislator, Vinson became known in the House as the "Swamp Fox" for his mastery of parliamentary procedure and his knack for obtaining the passage of key military legislation. When mentioned as a possible choice for Secretary of Defense in 1950, he said, "Shucks, I'd rather go on running the Pentagon from up here." In March 1980 he became the first living American to have a warship named in his honor--the nuclear aircraft carrier U.S.S. Carl Vinson.

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