Milestones: Jun. 21, 1968

Marriage Revealed. Ted Williams, 49, former Boston Red Sox star and baseball's last .400 hitter (.406 in 1941); and Dolores Wettach, 32, a registered nurse and Miss Vermont of 1957; he for the third time, she for the first time; last fall.

Died. Wes Montgomery, 43, self-taught guitarist, whose knack for turning jazz to pop and vice versa produced such hit albums as A Day in the Life and California Dreaming; of a heart attack; in Indianapolis. Long acclaimed as one of the country's best jazz guitarists, he got into the groove with Goin' Out of My Head, his first pop LP...

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