Married. John O. Laird, 21, son of Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird, currently a junior at Wisconsin State University; and Nancy Claire Huset, 21, also a student at Wisconsin State; in a Lutheran ceremony in Chetek, Wis.

Married. Jacqueline Grennan, 42, outspoken president of Missouri's Webster College and a former nun, who received dispensation to leave the Roman Catholic sisterhood in 1967; and Paul Joseph Wexler, 49, Jewish recording-company executive; he for the second time; in a private ceremony conducted by a Jesuit priest; in Webster Groves, Mo.

Divorced. Eddie Fisher, 40, sometime crooner-actor, onetime husband of Elizabeth Taylor; by Connie Stevens, 30, pert star of TV's Hawaiian Eye; on grounds of cruelty; after one and a half years of marriage, two children; in Santa Monica, Calif.

Divorced. Rod Steiger, 44, burly, Academy Award-winning master of a hundred faces (The Pawnbroker, In the Heat of the Night, No Way to Treat a Lady); by Claire Bloom, 37, the wistful ballerina in Charlie Chaplin's 1952 film Limelight, and veteran Shakespearean actress; on grounds of incompatibility; after nine years of marriage, one child; in Juarez, Mexico.

Died. Edgar R. Baker Jr., 48, vice president and director of corporate development for Time Inc. and the man largely responsible for the success of TIME-LIFE INTERNATIONAL, which directed the company's operations in nearly 100 lands; of acute infectious hepatitis; in Manhattan. Trained in economics, Baker oversaw the development of T.L.I, in its formative years, sent TIME into virtually every non-Communist country, and organized a fortnightly international edition of LIFE for Spanish-speaking people. More recently, as director of corporate development, he helped lead Time Inc. into a variety of new ventures, among them Boston's Little, Brown & Co., the publishing firm.

Died. Robert Taylor, 57, one of the handsomest and most durable of Hollywood's leading men; of lung cancer; in Santa Monica, Calif. Born Spangler Arlington Brugh, Taylor broke into movies in 1934 and within three years had appeared in 15 features; his fans flocked to see him in such films as Waterloo Bridge, Bataan and Quo Vadis. In later years, Taylor won critical as well as popular acclaim for such workmanlike stints as the mental patient in 1947's High Wall. As Longtime Friend Ronald Reagan said in his eulogy: "He was more than a pretty boy, an image that embarrassed him because he was a man who respected his profession and was a master of it."

Died. Baron George Wrangell, 65, Russian aristocrat and onetime New York Journal-American society columnist, who made advertising history in 1951 when he donned an eyepatch (though he had 20/20 vision) and posed as the original "man in the Hathaway shirt"; of a heart attack; in Manhattan.

Died. Martita Hunt, 69, one of the great ladies of the English stage and screen, who enthralled American audiences as the sinister Miss Havisham in the 1947 film version of Great Expectations, and in 1948 as the wondrously wacky ragbag old crone in Broadway's The Madwoman of Chaillot; in London.

Died. John L. Lewis, 89, leonine titan of the U.S. labor movement (see THE NATION).

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