Milestones: Dec. 24, 1965

Born. To Dawn Fraser, 28, Australia's ace swimmer (four world records); and Gary Ware, 24, a Queensland bookmaker; their first child, a daughter; in Sydney.

Married. Patrick John Wayne, 26, chip off the old Duke, currently seen in Shenandoah; and Margaret Ann Hunt, 23, daughter of a prominent Los Angeles asphalt-company executive; in Hollywood.

Died. Grady Mars, 41, Grand Klaliff (vice president) of the North Carolina Klan, who, according to his wife, had been despondent ever since he took the Fifth Amendment last October to avoid telling the House Un-American Activities Committee what he...

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