Born. To Frankie Avalon, 25, onetime teen-age singing idol, currently starring in ye-ye movies (Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine), and Kay Deibel Avalon, 27, former dental technician: their third child, first daughter; in Los Angeles.

Married. Suzanne Atwater Kent, 23, granddaughter of A. Atwater Kent, millionaire radio manufacturer; and Thomas Hitchcock III, 26, Grand Prix auto driver and third-generation polo player whose father, Thomas Hitchcock Jr., was considered the greatest polo player of all time; in Palm Beach, Fla.

Married. Maria Cooper, 28, willowy daughter of the late Gary Cooper; and Byron Janis, 38, Pittsburgh pianist lionized by the Russians during 1960 and 1962 tours; he for the second time; in Woodbridge, Conn.

Divorced. By Mary Costa, 36, blonde and beautiful lyric soprano, who left a $150,000-a-year job as TV's Chrysler Girl for an opera career, making her widely acclaimed 1964 Metropolitan debut as Violetta in La Traviata: Frank Tashlin, 53, Hollywood writer-director of slapstick comedies (The Man from the Diners' Club); on grounds of cruelty; after twelve years of marriage, no children; in Santa Monica, Calif.

Died. William H. Olson, 25, Cornell graduate ('65) and Peace Corpsman since last June who taught science in the Ethiopian village of Adi Ugri; after being attacked by a crocodile while standing waist-deep in the muddy Baro River near Gambela, Ethiopia. Five fellow corpsmen heard Olson shout and saw the beast pull him under; next day police found and shot the crocodile.

Died. Field Marshal Abdul Salam Aref, 47, President of Iraq, a wily plotter who was General Abdul Karim Kassem's right-hand man in the 1958 army coup in which King Feisal was murdered, later that year fell from favor and was imprisoned by Kassem for pro-Nasser leanings, but was released in January 1963 and within a month grabbed power in a bloody revolt (Kassem and his chief aides were machine-gunned), after which Aref nimbly walked the tightrope of Middle East politics, surviving eight attempts on his own life; in the crash of his Russian-built helicopter during a sandstorm; near Al Qurnah, Iraq.

Died. Sydney Allard, 55, British sports-car manufacturer, the first to fit high-performance U.S. engines to rugged, road-holding British bodies, turning out a succession of highly prized Cadillac-Allards, Chrysler-Allards and Ford-Allards (in which he won the grueling 3,300-km. Monte Carlo Rally in 1952); of cancer; in Esher, England.

Died. Evelyn Waugh, 62, Britain's Edwardian gentleman at pen points with the 20th century; of a heart attack; in Somerset, England (see page 84).

Died. Amory L. Haskell, 72, industrialist and sportsman, who in the late 1920s introduced auto safety glass from Great Britain to the U.S. market, then at the age of 38 retired to devote himself to horse breeding and racing, most notably as founder (in 1946) and president of New Jersey's 600-acre Monmouth Park race track; of a heart attack; in Manhattan.

Died. Count Felix von Luckner, 84, World War I German naval hero, who roamed the oceans in an innocent-looking but well-armed three-masted clipper ship, and for nine months in 1917 played havoc with Allied shipping; of a pulmonary embolism; in Malmo, Sweden. All told, the guileful Von Luckner halted (often by bluff) and sank 14 ships before he was captured after his Seeadler (Sea Eagle) broke up on a South Pacific reef. Yet even his victims admired him: enemy crews were treated with hospitality and eventually sent ashore--all of which made Von Luckner's biography, The Sea Devil, a 1920s' bestseller and the man himself a prized lecturer in the U.S.

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