Married. Martha Chaffee, 30, widow of Astronaut Roger Chaffee, who died in the Apollo capsule fire 13 months ago; and William Canfield, 41, Texas realtor; both for the second time; in a Lutheran ceremony; in Houston.

Married. Amy Vanderbilt, 59, oracle of manners whose Complete Book of Etiquette has sold 1,500,000 copies to date; and Curtis Kellar, 51, a Mobil Oil Corp. lawyer; he for the second time, she for the fourth; in Manhattan.

Married. Rómulo Betancourt, 60, former President of Venezuela (1959-64) and still its most powerful politician; and Child Psychologist Renee Hartman Viso, 44, his longtime friend; both for the second time; in Bern, Switzerland.

Died. Stanley Berman, 41, Brooklyn cab driver and self-proclaimed "World's Greatest Gate-Crasher"; of a blood infection; in Brooklyn. No occasion was too exclusive, no dignitary too aloof for Berman, who posed as a waiter to demand Queen Elizabeth II's autograph during her 1957 visit, crashed J.F.K.'s Inaugural Ball in 1961, and had his finest moment in 1962 when he charged onstage to hand Bob Hope an Oscar in front of 100 million TV watchers.

Died. Doretta Morrow, 42, onetime Broadway beauty, star in The King and I and Kismet; of cancer; in London. Blessed with a crystal soprano, she rose to stardom as Tuptim in 1951's The King and I, went to Hollywood in Because You're Mine with Mario Lanza, and returned to more cheers with Alfred Drake in 1953's Kismet—then in 1960 tossed it all aside to marry a London insurance executive.

Died. Shinzo Hamai, 62, four-term mayor of Hiroshima (1947-1952, 1959-1967) and the biggest single force in the city's rebirth; of a heart attack; in Hiroshima. Himself a survivor of the atomic holocaust, Hamai laid out a new metropolis with broad avenues and plazas, was so successful in convincing industry (shipbuilding, auto manufacturing) to return that today Hiroshima is one of Japan's most prosperous cities, with a population of 543,000, almost twice the wartime number.

Died. Juanita Hall, 66, "Bloody Mary" in the stage and screen versions of South Pacific; of diabetes; in Bay Shore, L.I. "Bloody Mary is the girl I love," sang the sailors, and for 1,694 Broadway performances, audiences loved her too, as the scheming, betelnut-chewing Tonkinese mama who belted out Happy Talk, and sang Bali Ha'i with such feeling that she nearly stole the show from Ezio Pinza and Mary Martin.

Died. Hugo Benioff, 68, foremost U.S. seismologist who turned the art of predicting earthquakes into a science; of a heart attack; in Mendocino, Calif. After charting geological faults along the U.S. West Coast, Benioff warned in 1949 that the forces that caused the 1906 San Francisco earthquake were building toward further upheavals, a prediction borne out by the California earthquakes of 1950 and 1952. His variable-reluctance seismograph, which records tiny changes in a magnetic field, after 30 years is still standard around the world.

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2. Clinton's Collateral Damage
3. Can Obama Play Offense?
4. Debating a Primary Do-Over
5. The Primary to End All Primaries?
6. More Sex Please, We're French
7. The Wire's War on the Drug War
8. McCain, Bush's Awkward Embrace
9. Why Oprah Won't Help Obama
10. Death Comes for Israel's Seminarians

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