Milestones: Jun. 25, 1965

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Born. To Juan Carlos, 27, son of Spanish Pretender Don Juan, and Princess Sophie, 26, sister of Greece's King Constantine: their second child, second daughter; in Madrid.

Married. Diane Dow Buchanan, 21, daughter of former U.S. Chief of Protocol (1957-61) Wiley T. Buchanan and great-granddaughter of the founder of Dow Chemical Co.; and John Traina Jr., 33, American President shipping line manager; in a Methodist ceremony boycotted by her father, who disapproves of the match; in Washington.

Married. Rosemary Pusey, 23, daughter of Harvard's president Nathan M. Pusey; and David Stephen Hopkins, 21, Stanford University graduate student; in Cambridge, Mass.

Married. Sybil Burton, 36, Richard's silvery-haired ex, currently hostess à-go-go of Arthur, Manhattan discothèque; and Jordan Christopher (nè Zankoff), 24, rag-mopped leader of the Wild Ones, the club's rock-along band; both for the second time; in Manhattan. Ventured the groom's father, an Akron saloonkeeper: "I don't know what Sybil saw in him. Whatever it is, I'd like to know."

Married. Pierre Salinger, 40, slimmer but still stout former U.S. Senator and presidential press secretary, now vice president of National General Corp., a movie-theater firm; and Nicole Gillman, 26, a pretty, French magazine reporter who met him eight months ago during his unsuccessful campaign for the Senate; he for the third time; in a Paris civil ceremony three days after being divorced by Nancy Brook Joy, 37, his wife of eight years.

Divorced. By Dorothy Collins, 38, high-collared Hit Parader of the mid-1950s, now doing summer stock: Raymond Scott, 54, the program's bandleader; on uncontested grounds of cruelty ("His criticism gave me asthma"); after 13 years of marriage, two children; in Santa Monica, Calif.

Died. George Melachrino, 56, British orchestra leader who made it big in the late 1940s and '50s by putting violins into the big-band bounce with his 40-piece Melachrino Strings, sold more than 3,000,000 albums and started the rash of "music for . . ." records, among them his Music for Reading, Music for Relaxation, Music for Inspiration; of an apparent heart attack; in London.

Died. Balfour Bowen Thorn Lord, 58, Democratic Party chief in New Jersey since 1961 and chairman for 17 years of powerful Mercer County (which includes Trenton), a skillful organizer who in 1954 was widely credited with electing Governor Robert B. Meyner after ten years of Republican rule, but proved less successful himself in 1960 when he ran for the U.S. Senate against Clifford Case, losing by 335,861 votes (while President Kennedy won the state by 22,091), after which he helped his former law partner Richard Hughes win the governorship in 1962; by his own hand (depressed by his estrangement from Second Wife Nina Underwood, he garroted himself with an electric-shaver cord); in Princeton, N.J.

Died. Burr Shafer, 65, cartoonist, whose wry historical satires (Says an innkeeper to a soldier: "And if you're not out by 12 o'clock, General Washington, I'll have to charge you for another day") moved President Harry Truman to write "I'm very proud that I'm smart enough to get the point"; of a pulmonary embolism; in Orange, Calif.

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