Milestones, Mar. 22, 1976

Engaged. Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf, 29, whose motto is "For Sweden—In Keeping With The Times"; and West German-Brazilian Commoner Silvia Renate Sommerlath, 32, a protocol official for the Olympic Games.

Separated. Johnny Bench, 28, All-Star catcher of the world champion Cincinnati Reds; and Model Vickie Chesser Bench, 26; after a year's marriage, no children.

Died. Louis Edward Sissman, 48, poet and essayist who was able, he said, to "compartmentalize" his mind and alternate between writing belles-lettres and advertising copy; after a ten-year battle with Hodgkin's disease; in Boston.

Died. Sidney E. Rolfe, 54,...

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