Married. Maria Roncalli, 26, niece of Pope John XXIII; and Luigi Gotti, 30, employed in a tile plant; in a simple nuptial Mass celebrated by Msgr. Giovanni Battista Roncalli, a nephew of the Pope; in Sotto il Monte, Italy.

Died. Oleg Vladimirovich Penkovsky, 44, Russia's former deputy chief of the State Committee on Scientific Research and Coordination, convicted of spying for the West; probably by a bullet in the back of the head; in Moscow.

Died. Omar Loutfi, 55, United Nations Under Secretary for Special Political Affairs since last year, a highly respected Egyptian diplomat who persuasively represented his country at the U.N. during the 1956 Suez Crisis and as Under Secretary had been especially concerned with disarmament; of a heart attack; at the U.N. Secretariat Building in Manhattan.

Died. Leon George Roth, 67, part-time janitor for Cincinnati's Whittier elementary school and the U.S. Army private who on Nov.11, 1918 carried the surrender message that ended World War I; of a stroke; in Springfield, Ohio. As Motorcycle Dispatch Carrier Roth stood shivering in the cold near the railroad car where German and Allied officials had been secretly negotiating the armistice, a captain approached at 5:15 a.m. with a metal message tube to be taken 25 miles to U.S. General John Pershing's headquarters. "Ride like hell," said the officer. "This is one you must get through." Roth got through despite a severe head wound from sniper fire, for his courageous journey received the French Croix de Guerre and U.S. Distinguished Service Cross.

Died. Fintan Patrick Walsh, 67, president of New Zealand's Federation of Labor, a craggy bachelor who started as an organizer for the Seaman's Union, strode on to become unquestioned kingpin of New Zealand labor and one of his country's most important men, bitterly resisting all efforts by the nation's farmers (of which he was one of the biggest in the dairy field) to capture an increased share of government benefits at the expense of labor; of a heart attack; in Wellington, N.Z.

Died. Tex O'Rourke, 77, magnificently mustachioed wit and bon viveur, a onetime Texas Ranger, boxer (his manager: Bat Masterson), fight manager (his tiger: Jess Willard, who kayoed Heavyweight Champion Jack Johnson in 1915), and since 1937, "chief executioner of fall guys" for the ego-busting Circus Saints and Sinners; following prostatic surgery; in Manhattan. Of Ike he once said: "The greatest warrior from Kansas since Carry Nation." Of Kennedy: "I thought the new President wasn't likely to make any mistakes--that they were all made. But I underestimated him."

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