Medicine: Medicine, Oct. 23, 1978

MARRIED. James Earl Ray, 50, Martin Luther King Jr.'s convicted assassin, who is serving a 99-year jail term; and Anna Sandhu, 31, freelance courtroom artist; he for the first time, she for the second time; in Brushy Mountain state prison, at Petros, Tenn. Tennessee does not permit conjugal visits, a situation Sandhu described as "terrible."

DIED. Jacques Brel, 49, Belgian-born composer and singer whose 500 or so plaintive, compassionate songs became best known in the U.S. through the cabaret-style musical Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris; of a pulmonary embolism;...

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