Milestones, Jun. 11, 1979

ENGAGED. Marie Osmond, 19, distaff half of ABC-TV's toothily wholesome Donny and Marie duo; and Jeff Crayton, 23, a college student and actor; in Orem, Utah.

DIED. Neil Jacoby, 69, conservative economist who was dean of U.C.L.A.'s Graduate School of Business Administration and served on President Eisenhower's Council of Economic Advisers; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles. A free-market champion ("Adam Smith was the prophet"), Jacoby was warning about high inflation as long ago as the late 1950s, and argued that the proper cure was not controls but a curb on the...

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