Milestones: May 4, 1970

Married. Beverley Bigelow Byrd, 21, daughter of Virginia's Senator Harry F. Byrd Jr., a sales assistant for a brokerage firm; and U.S. Army Lieut. George Partridge Greenhalgh, 23, whom she has known since childhood; in an Episcopal ceremony in Winchester, Va.

Died. Héctor Garcia Godoy, 49, Dominican diplomat and politician, a candidate for President in the May 16 elections in his troubled Caribbean nation; of a heart attack; in Santo Domingo. A moderate leftist, Garcia Godoy rose to prominence in 1965 as provisional President following a bitter civil war and subsequent U.S. military...

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