Milestones: Sep. 15, 1967

Married. Judith Fisher, 22, granddaughter of a founder of Fisher Body Co., now a GM division; and Jack F. Chrysler Jr., 21, grandson of Chrysler Corp.'s founder; in a Roman Catholic ceremony; in Grosse Pointe, Mich.

Died. Mohamed ben Laden, 53, Saudi Arabian construction king who could neither read nor write but whose computer-like memory for figures lifted him from laborer to Aramco construction boss in his mid-thirties, whereupon he quit to form his own company and with the late King Ibn Saud's patronage built $500 million worth of airfields, dams and highways...

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