Separated. Phil Esposito, 31, star of the Boston Bruins and the National Hockey League's leading scorer for the past three years, now mending from knee surgery after being injured two weeks ago in a playoff game; and Linda Esposito, thirtyish; after nine years of marriage, two children; in Boston.

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Died. Dudley Senanayake, 61, quiet, conservative, three-time Prime Minister of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka); of heart disease; in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Succeeding his father as Prime Minister in 1952, Senanayake found his government beset with chronic inflation, food shortages and a leftist opposition determined to socialize the economy. After two brief terms plagued by rising prices (1952-53, 1960), he returned as Prime Minister in 1965 and held office until his government's decisive defeat by the Communist-backed Sri Lanka Freedom Party five years later.

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Died. Henry Chandlee Turner Jr., 70, executive committee chairman and past president (1947-65) of the Turner Construction Co., which under his aggressive leadership became one of the nation's biggest builders of skyscrapers (the United Nations Secretariat, Chase Manhattan Bank Building); after suffering a stroke; in Greenwich, Conn.

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Died. Arthur Freed, 78, songwriter and one of Hollywood's best producers of movie musicals; of a heart attack; in West Los Angeles. After writing his first hit in 1923 (I Cried for You, Now It's Your Turn to Cry over Me), Freed teamed up with Composer Nacio Herb Brown and turned out a string of winners, including Singin' in the Rain, Our Love Affair and All I Do Is Dream of You. In 1939 he switched to producing and made more than 40 musicals including An American in Paris and Gigi, both Academy Award winners.

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Died. Pablo Picasso, 91, protean genius of 20th century art (see ART).

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Died. John Lord O'Brian, 98, prim, patriarchal dean of Supreme Court lawyers and an active partner in the prestigious Washington, D.C., firm of Covington & Burling; of a heart attack; in Washington. In a legal career spanning three-quarters of a century, O'Brian served as a U.S. Attorney in New York State, a Justice Department administrator and a private lawyer who championed the cause of civil liberties in Supreme Court hearings. Rigidly Republican and openly critical of New Deal spending during the '30s, he nevertheless defended the constitutionality of the Tennessee Valley Authority before the high court in 1935, and later served as the first general counsel of Roosevelt's War Production Board.

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