Milestones: Mar. 15, 1968

Married. Fumiko Higashikuni, 21, eldest granddaughter of Japan's Emperor Hirohito; and Kazutoshi Omura, 28, an executive with Hitachi Metals, Ltd.; in a Shinto ceremony; in Tokyo.

Died. Edward H. Litchfield, 53, chancellor of the University of Pittsburgh from 1955 to 1965, while also holding down the board chairmanship of S.C.M. (Smith-Corona Marchant) Corp. and a handful of other executive positions; when the light plane carrying him, his mother, his wife and two children, and a pilot crashed into Lake Michigan. Steeped in administration as a top aide to Lucius Clay during the occupation...

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