Milestones: Apr. 7, 1967

Married. Sharon Percy, 22, daughter of Illinois’ Republican Senator Charles Percy; and John D. (“Jay”) Rockefeller IV, 29, son of John D. Ill and nephew of Republican Governors Nelson and Winthrop, himself recently elected to West Virginia’s state legislature as a Democrat; in Chicago.

Married. Nancy Quirk Williams Jr., 23, eldest daughter of former Michigan Governor G. Mennen (“Soapy”) Williams; and Theodore Ketterer III, 23, salesman for IBM; in an Episcopal ceremony in Detroit. Soapy’s regalia: striped trousers and cutaway morning coat, embellished with his familiar green polka-dot tie.

Married. Mia Fonssagrives, 25, U.S. designer of far-out styles for the yé-yé crowd, daughter of famed model Lisa Fonssagrives; and Louis Feraud, 47, Paris couturier; she for the first time, he for the second; in Paris.

Died. Marshal Rodion Yakovlevich Malinovsky, 68, the Soviet Union’s Minister of Defense since 1957; of cancer; in Moscow. Short, grizzled, gruff, Malinovsky looked like the original Russian bear—and played the part to perfection. As a heavy-fisted soldier, he took part in the World War II defense of Stalingrad, commanded the advance through Rumania and Hungary to Vienna, and finally Russia’s “one-week war” against Japan. As a Communist, he was the perfect, unquestioning Party member, who survived all purges, obediently reined in the army when Khrushchev opted for fewer guns and more butter, then swiftly put himself behind the new leaders when Khrushchev was ousted−all of which earned him the Kremlin’s highest honors.

Died. William M. Kincaid, 71, flutist, hailed as one of the world’s top performers during his 39 years with the Philadelphia Orchestra and renowned as a teacher of virtually every first-rank U.S. flutist active today, who learned breath control as a child diving for pennies in Honolulu harbor, played in various mainland orchestras until 1921, when Leopold Stokowski lured him to Philadelphia, where he pleased audiences with his lyrical solos on the “metal nightingale”; of a heart attack; in Philadelphia.

Died. Fritz Schaffer, 78, German economist and Konrad Adenauer’s Fi nance Minister from 1949 to 1957, an ascetic Bavarian who saddled West Germany with the stiffest taxes in Europe, fiercely resisted what he considered nonessential government spending, and was largely responsible for the deutsche mark’s becoming one of the world’s hardest currencies; of a heart attack; in Berchtesgaden, Germany.