MARRIED. Olga Korbut, 22, petite, pixieish Soviet gymnast who won three gold medals at the 1972 Munich Olympics; and Leonid Bortkevich, 27, a singer with a popular Byelorussian folk-pop group called "Pesnyary"; she for the first time, he for the second; in Minsk.

DIVORCED. George C. Wallace, 58, Governor of Alabama, and Cornelia Wallace, 38; on their seventh wedding anniversary; in Montgomery. After the Governor sued for a no-fault divorce last September, Cornelia countersued on grounds of "physical cruelty and actual violence." The legal battle promised to be lurid, but minutes before the trial was to begin, an out-of-court agreement was announced, giving Cornelia a lump sum of $75,000 in alimony, some lake property and household appliances.

DIED. Paul Jacobs, 59, investigative reporter, left-wing political gadfly and author (Is Curly Jewish?, Prelude to Riot); of cancer; in San Francisco. A Trotskyite during the '30s, he worked for many years in the labor movement. In 1956 he became staff director of the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, a liberal think tank. One of the first reporters to warn of the dangers of radioactive fallout from U.S. nuclear testing, he later attributed his cancer to radioactive poisoning contracted while working on his articles.

DIED. Max Ascoli, 79, educator, author and editor of the Reporter, a distinguished but now defunct fortnightly journal of ideas; in Manhattan. An Italian antiFascist, Ascoli was jailed briefly under Benito Mussolini's regime and immigrated to the U.S. in 1931. The Reporter, which he founded in 1949, ran vigorous stories criticizing the China lobby, McCarthyism and governmental misuse of wiretapping. As staunchly anti-Communist as he was antiFascist, Ascoli supported the growing U.S. involvement in Viet Nam during the '60s, thereby alienating many liberal readers and leading to the demise of his magazine in 1968.

DIED. John D. MacArthur, 80, America's next-to-last known billionaire (only Shipping Tycoon Daniel K. Ludwig, 80, now remains); of cancer; in West Palm Beach, Fla. Son of a dirt farmer and wandering evangelist, MacArthur bought Bankers Life & Casualty during the Depression for $2,500 and through mail-order techniques built it into America's second largest health and accident underwriter. Although he also had multimillion-dollar interests in other companies and in real estate, MacArthur maintained an eccentric and frugal existence, pocketing desserts he could not finish on airplane flights and picking up discarded soft drink bottles to turn in for their deposits. During the last few years, he lived in a modest two-bedroom apartment and conducted much of his business from a local coffee shop.

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