Milestones, Sep. 10, 1973

Engaged. Major General Walter R. Tkach, 56, President Nixon's physician since 1969; and Cheryle Ann Gaillard, 27, conference director at the Western White House. It will be the second marriage for Tkach (pronounced Ta-kosh), the first for Gaillard.

Married. Gordon Parks, 60, photographer, novelist, poet, composer and film director (Shaft); and Genevieve Young, 42, executive editor at the publishing house of J.B. Lippincott and daughter of a Chinese diplomat who was killed during World War II; he for the third time, she for the second; in Pound Ridge, N.Y. A LIFE photographer from 1949 to 1970, in 1969 Parks became the first...

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