Born. To Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, 46, Shah of Iran, and Farah Diba, 28: their third child, second son and second in line for succession to the 2,500-year-old Persian throne; in Teheran.

Married. Christine Goitschel, 21, older of two French sisters currently considered the world's best female skiers, each with a 1964 Olympic gold medal to her credit; and Jean Beranger, 28, her skiing coach; in Val-d'Isere, France.

Died. Leverett Saltonstall Jr., 48, oldest son and namesake of the U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, an agronomy Ph.D. from Cornell who raised grain on his 800-acre working farm; of lung cancer; in Ithaca, N.Y.

Died. Paula Strasberg, 55, wife of Actors Studio Head Lee Strasberg and mother of Actress Susan, who helped her husband preach the gospel of Method acting, served as dramatic coach to Marilyn Monroe; of a heart attack; in Manhattan.

Died. Harry T. Griffith, 63, Pennsylvania sales engineer who suffered from bone cancer and, in hopes of stimulating disease-stopping antibodies, took part in a dramatic double-transplant operation (TIME, March 11) in which he traded tumorous tissue with a Tucson insur ance salesman afflicted with the same malignancy; of bone cancer with complications; in Philadelphia.

Died. Patrick Vincent McNamara, 71, Michigan's Democratic U.S. Senator since 1955, a genial Irishman who became president of a Detroit pipe fitters' local in 1933, then fell into big-time politics, eventually winning a Senate seat, where he concentrated on care for the aged, labor-management relations, highway development and from 1963 the chairmanship of the Public Works Committee; after a stroke; in Bethesda Naval Hospital, Md.

Died. Louis A. Johnson, 75, Harry Truman's Defense Secretary from 1949 to 1950, a longtime H.S.T. crony, whose strong presidential-campaign support ($250,000 from his own pocket) won him the defense post, where he sharply reduced U.S. defenses, a stance that drew angry criticism over U.S. unpreparedness in the Korean War; following a series of strokes; in Washington.

Died. Frank Hummert, 79, first of broadcasting's big-time packagers who in the 1930s bought as much as $9,000,000 of air time annually, and, along with wife Anne, had as many as 20 shows going in the same week, including such interminable soap operas as Just Plain Bill (25 years) and The Romance of Helen Trent (27 years); of pneumonia; in Manhattan on March 12.

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