Monday, Nov. 26, 1973
Married. Kathleen Kennedy, 22, oldest of the late Robert F. Kennedy's eleven children; and David Lee Townsend, 25, Harvard doctoral candidate in history and literature and fledgling poetry publisher; both for the first time; in Washington, D.C. The bride was given away by her uncle, Ted Kennedy --whose son had just undergone surgery for cancer--and left the ceremony at her husband's side in the rumble seat of a vintage roadster. The newlyweds will reside in Cambridge, Mass., until they both receive their degrees in June (hers will be a B.A. from Radcliffe).
Married. Princess Anne, 23, only daughter of Queen Elizabeth II of England and fourth in line to the British throne; and Mark Anthony Peter Phillips, 25, commoner captain in the Queen's Dragoon Guards (see THE WORLD).
Married. Henry Louis Aaron, 39, baseball's superstar outfielder whose next home run will tie Babe Ruth's lifetime record of 714; and Billye Williams, 36, widow of the Atlanta civil rights leader the Rev. Samuel Williams and co-host of a morning TV talk show where she and Hammerin' Hank met two years ago; both for the second time; in Kingston, Jamaica.
Died. Alan Wilson Watts, 58, onetime Episcopal minister who became a leading exponent of Zen Buddhism and a counterculture hero; of heart disease; near Mill Valley, Calif. Born in England, Watts came to America in 1938, lectured widely on college campuses and occasionally lived on a houseboat in San Francisco Bay. His concept of inner peace and release from what he termed "the chronic uneasy conscience of Hebrew-Christian cultures," made popular through The Way of Zen (1957) and his essay Beat Zen, Square Zen and Zen (1958), earned him an enthusiastic following that ranged from hippies to psychoanalysts and theologians to Drug Cultist Timothy Leary.
Died. Elsa Schiaparelli, 83, formidable couturiere who dominated the high-fashion world of the 1930s with her art deco-and surrealism-inspired collections; following a stroke; in Paris. Born in Rome, "Schiap" became a French citizen in 1927 and began her career in Paris by designing sweaters featuring bold peasant motifs. From her salon beside the Ritz, she scored many fashion firsts, among them tailored evening jackets, the use of synthetic fabrics and the color, shocking pink. Schiaparelli closed her couture house--where her designs had been sold for as much as $5,000--in 1954, and later reappeared in the spotlight as the grandmother of Celebrities Marisa and Berry Berenson.
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