Milestones, Jul. 31, 1978

MARRIAGE REVEALED. Taylor Caldwell, 77, prolific and bestselling novelist (This Side of Innocence, Dear and Glorious Physician, Great Lion of God); and Robert Prestie, 60, her manager; she for the fourth time, he for the second; on July 6 in Erie, Pa.

DIED. Fyodor Kulakov, 60, Soviet Politburo member and former National Party Secretary for Agriculture; of a heart attack; in Moscow. The youngest man to serve simultaneously on the 14-member Politburo and the Secretariat, Kulakov rode out the disastrous grain harvest of 1975 and was reportedly being groomed to succeed Brezhnev. Named Party Secretary for Agriculture in 1965 and Politburo member...

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