Died. Wolf V. Vishniac, 51, a microbiologist who designed one of the devices to be used to search for life on Mars during the U.S.'s first soft-landing attempt in 1975-76; after falling down an ice slope during an expedition to Antarctica. Vishniac's "Wolf trap" is the size of a cigar box and contains adhesive-coated strings that will be dragged through Mars' arid soil, then reeled into the container, where any life forms stuck to the strings will be detected. --Died. Marian Young Taylor, 65, known to radio listeners for 32 years as Martha Deane, the relaxed, knowledgeable interview hostess on New York's WOR; of cancer; in Manhattan. A onetime newspaper reporter, Taylor took the professional name of Deane in 1941 and questioned such guests as Dwight Eisenhower, Arnold Toynbee, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor and John V. Lindsay.

Died. Dorothy Shakespear Pound, 87, forbearing widow of Poet Ezra Pound, with whom she shared his triumphs and eccentricities-and her annuity-from 1914 to 1960; near Cambridge, England. She met Pound in pre-World War I London and introduced him to members of her circle, including W.B. Yeats. She designed several of her husband's books and magazines in Paris, and was the mother of Pound's son Omar. During World War II she shared her home and her husband with Concert Pianist Olga Rudge, who had borne Pound a daughter. Dorothy Pound followed her husband to the U.S. in 1945 when, instead of being tried for treason, he was incarcerated in a mental hospital. She became his legal guardian and visited him every day for twelve years. When he was released, she returned with him to Italy-only to be abandoned, finally, in favor of Rudge.

Died. Ada Louise Cornstock Notestein, 97, first full-time president of Radcliffe College (1923-43); in New Haven, Conn. During her last year as president, Notestein ended a 64-year custom by persuading Harvard to open its courses to women.

Death Revealed. Alexander V. Gorbatov, 81, the Soviet army general who was arrested during the Stalin purge of 1938, sentenced to 15 years in the icy Kolyma concentration camp but later "rehabilitated" to fight the Nazis; in Moscow. Gorbatov joined the army and fought successfully in the civil war, rising to command a cavalry regiment. Following his arrest for "liberalism," along with many other army leaders, he refused to sign a false confession even after being tortured. Reinstated in 1941, he eventually commanded the Third Army in its march on Berlin.

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