Milestones, Jan. 12, 1976

Married. Edwin ("Buzz") Aldrin Jr., 45, second man to step on the moon as a member of the 1969 Apollo crew and later the victim of a nervous breakdown described in his autobiography, Return to Earth; and Interior Decorator Beverly Van Zile; both for the second time; in Baja California.

-Died. The Rev. Dallas Tarkenton, 63, Pentecostal Holiness Church minister and father of Minnesota Viking Quarterback Fran Tarkenton; of a heart attack, while watching his son's team lose to the Dallas Cowboys, 17-14, in an N.F.L. play-off game; in Savannah, Ga.

-Died. Euell Gibbons,...

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