Milestones, Jul. 4, 1977

Married. Muhammad Ali, 35, heavyweight boxing champion and actor (The Greatest); and Veronica Porche, 21, former model and mother of Ali's ten-month-old child; he for the third time, she for the first; in Beverly Hills.

Died. Bruce C. Heezen, 53, geologist and oceanographer who charted the ocean floor; of an apparent heart attack; while aboard a submarine, off the coast of Iceland. Heezen, who joined the Lament Geological Observatory when it was founded in 1949, helped discover and map the 47,000-mile-long globe-girdling system of ridges and rifts—a landmark in geology. Heezen also studied the role of turbidity currents (underwater rivers of...

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