Married. Rosemary Harris, 40, British actress whose equal knack for Shakespeare, Shaw and Sheridan blossomed in New York's APA repertory company under the direction of Ellis Rabb, her first husband (her ties with APA and Rabb both ended in divorce last spring); and John Ehle, 41, native North Carolina author (The Free Man); in Penland, N.C.

Died. Wladyslaw Tykocinski, 46, top-ranking Polish diplomat who defected to the West in 1965; of an apparent heart attack; in Washington, D.C. Finding "only a cynical exploitation of human opportunism and fear" in Poland, Tykocinski turned himself in to a U.S. Army sergeant in West Berlin, quitting his strategic post as head of the Polish Military Mission in West Berlin. Stung by his defection, a military tribunal in Warsaw last year tried him in absentia and sentenced him to death.

Died. Helen Palmer Geisel, 69, wife of "Dr. Seuss" and mother to his zany literary menagerie of Grinches, Nerkles, and Star-Belly Sneetches; of undetermined causes; in La Jolla, Calif. As an American at Oxford in 1925, she urged her boy friend, Ted Geisel, to devote himself to his whimsical doodles. Geisel took her advice to heart, married her as well, and as Dr. Seuss, published 27 books.

Died. Ruth Fuller Sasaki, 74, Zen Buddhist scholar and first Westerner admitted to the Rinzai Zen priesthood; of a heart attack; in Kyoto, Japan. She began to follow Zen after a 1930 sightseeing trip through China and Japan and migrated to Japan in 1950 to open a study center. Convinced of her sincerity, the Zen Buddhists later ordained her as a priestess in charge of her own temple.

Died. Margaret Ayer Barnes, 81, playwright and novelist; of a pulmonary embolism; in Cambridge, Mass. Bedridden in 1926 after an automobile accident, she scrawled manuscripts while propped up in her hospital bed. Less than four years later, three of her plays (Age of Innocence, Jenny, Dishonored Lady) had run on Broadway; in 1931, she received the Pulitzer Prize for her novel, Years of Grace.

Died. Alexander Wiley, 83, longtime (1938-1962) Republican Senator from Wisconsin; of a stroke; in Germantown, Pa. A staunch isolationist when he came to Washington, Wiley became the complete internationalist soon after the start of World War II. As a member and chairman (1953-54) of the Foreign Relations Committee, he vigorously supported a bipartisan foreign policy, backing the Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan, and the United Nations.

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