Monday, Jun. 30, 1975
Married. Evonne Goolagong, 23, Australian tennis star seeded fourth in this week's Wimbledon Tournament; and Roger Cawley, 25, a London metals broker; both for the first time; in Canterbury, England. Missing at the surprise ceremony was Vic Edwards, the coach who guided Goolagong to her 1971 Wimbledon victory and recently warned that she would have to choose between love and tennis. Goolagong, who plans to give up neither, announced: "I'm doing what I want, and that's that."
Died. Prince Faisal ibn Musaed, 26, nephew and assassin of Saudi Arabia's King Faisal; in a public beheading in Riyadh's Court of Justice Square (see THE WORLD).
Died. Clint ("Scrap Iron") Courtney, 48, pugnacious American League catcher of the 1950s and early 1960s; of an apparent heart attack; in Rochester, while on the road with the minor-league Richmond Braves, which he had managed since 1973. For more than a decade, Courtney played with six clubs, compiling a record of near-flawless fielding and clutch hitting. A relentless belligerence earned him his nickname and triggered some of baseball's most violent brouhahas, notably a game-stopping 1953 free-for-all at Busch Stadium that began when Courtney, then playing for the old St. Louis Browns, spiked Yankee Shortstop Phil Rizzuto while trying to stretch a single. "There's the meanest man I ever met," said his Browns teammate Satchel Paige. "I'm glad he's on my side."
Died. Sam Giancana, 66, Chicago mobster linked to alleged CIA plots to assassinate Fidel Castro; of seven bullet wounds in the head and neck; in his Oak Park, Ill., home (see THE NATION).
Died. James Phinney Baxter, 82, president of Williams College from 1937 to 1961; in Williamstown, Mass. A 1914 Williams graduate, Maine-born Baxter headed for Wall Street but, after a bout with tuberculosis, turned to teaching history, first at Colorado College, later at Harvard. Brought to Williams as president in 1937, he transformed the college over the next 24 years from an undemanding educational country club where the average grade was D + to a serious meritocracy by increasing scholarship aid, strengthening the faculty and quadrupling the academic budget. During World War II he was historian for the Office of Scientific Research and Development, gathering material for Scientists Against Time, his 1947 Pulitzer prizewinning study of the wartime technological race between Allied and Axis scientists.
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