Milestones, Oct. 20, 1975

Married. Linda Black, 27, daughter of Shirley Temple Black, U.S. Ambassador to Ghana; and Roberto Falaschi, 33, first secretary of the Italian embassy in Ghana and son of Italy's Ambassador to Uganda; in Woodside, Calif.

Died. Walter Felsenstein, 74, director of East Berlin's Komische Oper since 1947; of cancer; in East Berlin. One of the century's most influential operatic impresarios, Vienna-born Felsenstein was a demanding perfectionist who sometimes rehearsed for 36-hour stretches. Once, when a reluctant chorus member declined to jump from a 7-ft.-high perch, Felsenstein made the leap, broke his arm and returned 45 minutes later waving his cast and demanding...

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