Married. King Hussein, 37, indestructible ruler of Jordan; and Alia Toukan, 24, honey blonde airline hostess and a Jordanian diplomat's daughter whom Hussein met in October; he for the third time, she for the first; in Amman, less than a week after the King's divorce from wife No. 2.
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Died. James ("Little Jimmy") Patton, 39, gritty 185-lb. safetyman for the New York Giants (1955-67), who played in six championship games, five pro bowls, and was one of the best man-toman pass defenders in pro football; in an automobile accident on Dec. 22; in Villa Rica, Ga.
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Died. Lester B. Pearson, 75, former Prime Minister of Canada (1963-68) and winner of the 1957 Nobel Peace Prize (see THE WORLD).
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Died. Charles Atlas, 80, the original "97-lb. weakling" who developed into the king of mail-order bodybuilders; of a heart attack; in Long Beach, N.Y. An Italian farm boy (real name: Angelo Siciliano), Atlas migrated to New York with his parents in 1904. He suffered from anemia and began a daily regimen of isometric exercises that turned him into a vaudeville strongman. With a 13-week bodybuilding course to sell. Atlas in 1928 was joined by Adman Charles Roman, who dubbed the system "Dynamic Tension" and created the cartoon of a hollow-chested, preAtlas adolescent having sand kicked in his face by a bully. Like his advertising, Atlas' course remained essentially unchanged for half a century and was bought by more than 6,000,000 aspiring he-men around the world.
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Died. Andrei N. Tupolev, 84, grand old man of Soviet aviation and developer of the TU-144, SST rival to the British-French Concorde; of heart disease; in Moscow. A quiet, portly intellectual, Tupolev predicted in 1922 that aviation's future lay in all-metal planes, then began designing almost one a year. Despite his productivity and a long list of aviation records, his defense of a friend during purges of the 1930s earned him Stalin's wrath--and a five-year stay in prison. Released during World War II, Tupolev achieved one of his greatest technical triumphs when he copied the design of a grounded U.S. B-29 and put a Soviet version into production within a year. Tupolev remained active until his 80s, and is thought to be the creator of the new Soviet bomber. Backfire, the world's first swing-wing intercontinental bomber.
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Died. Harry S. Truman, 88, 33rd President of the United States (see THE NATION). sb
Died. Chakravarti Rajagopalachari, 94, India's elder statesman and a principal lieutenant of Mohandas Gandhi during their country's struggle for independence; in Madras, India. A Brahman lawyer who joined Gandhi in 1919, "Rajaji" served his mentor as publisher and administrative aide. His leadership in passive resistance against the British led to frequent jail terms. Though his prophetic support for a separate Moslem state--which became Pakistan--caused a break with Gandhi in 1942, he later rejoined his old ally and in 1948 became India's first native-born Governor-General. Long a conservative and an ardent antiCommunist, Rajaji was no follower of the majority Congress Party led by Jawaharlal Nehru; in 1959 he established his own right-wing Swatantra (Freedom) Party.
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Died. John Netherland Heiskell, 100, editor of the Arkansas Gazette for the past 70 years; in Little Rock, Ark. Staunchly independent in his views, Heiskell brought the Gazette to national prominence during the Little Rock school-integration crisis in 1957 when he approved a series of editorials opposing Segregationist Governor Orval Faubus. That stand cost him much of his circulation and ad revenue, but Heiskell stood firm. His paper--the oldest west of the Mississippi--was rewarded with a Pulitzer Prize. Disaffected readers and advertisers later returned. Though younger men took over the Gazette, Heiskell visited the newsroom daily until his 99th birthday, wryly attributing his longevity to an "oversight of the Lord."
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