Born. To Tony Kubek, 26, Milwaukee-born shortstop for the New York Yankees, and Margaret Timmel Kubek, 29, former psychiatric social worker: their second child, second son; in Ridgewood, N.J.
Married. Betsy Blair, 39, red-haired cinemactress who played Marty's schoolteacher girl friend; and Karel Reisz, 37, Czech-born British film director, whose credits include Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and This Sporting Life; he for the first, she for the second time (her first: Dancer Gene Kelly); in London.
Married. Kay Sutton Topping, 48, onetime Hollywood starlet from New Jersey, ex-wife of New York Yankees Co-Owner Dan Topping, popular Washington socialite; and Frederick Moulton Alger Jr., 56, widower heir to 19th century Michigan lumber millions, Eisenhower's Ambassador to Belgium from 1953 to 1956; in Grosse Pointe Farms, Mich.
Died. Margarita Sierra, 26, peppery Spanish nightingale, who as Cha Cha O'Brien, Castanet-clacking Miami nightclub singer on TV's Surfside 6, for three years played herself down to the last brightly mangled bit of syntax; following surgery for damaged heart valves; in Los Angeles.
Died. Guy Francis de Money Burgess, 52, Eton-produced British diplomat who, with his colleague Donald Maclean, was found to be a top Soviet spy after their sensational 1951 flight to Russia; of heart disease; in Moscow. A slovenly, hard-drinking homosexual, less effective at undercover work than the fastidious Maclean, Burgess turned left at Cambridge, passed official secrets while in the foreign service both from London and Washington. He split with Maclean in exile, avoided Russians and defiantly sported his old school tie, but it was left to Maclean to eulogize him, as a band blared the Internationale in the nearly empty crematorium, as "a man who devoted his life to making a more peaceful world."
Died. Louis MacNeice, 55, handsome Irish-born, sports-loving Greek scholar who, in the early 1930s, was briefly celebrated as one of the brash young Oxford poets, along with Auden, Spender and C. Day Lewis, who stood traditional English verse on its ear by mixing slang and sardonic wit, toff talk and tough thinking to comment on England between the wars; of pneumonia; in London. During World War II, MacNeice drifted away from poetry to become one of the BBC's top scriptwriters and producers; but his early verse, which he enjoyed writing "as one enjoys swimming or swearing," had a jagged, sprightly charm, a cynically cheerful view of life, as in
It's no go my honey love,
it's no go my poppet;
Work your hands from day to day,
the winds will blow the profit.
The glass is falling hour by hour,
the glass will fall for ever, But if you break the bloody glass
you won't hold up the weather.
Died. Norman Raymond Sutherland, 65, president (since 1955) and chairman (since last July) of California's Pacific Gas & Electric Co., the nation's largest gas and electric firm in revenues ($729 million a year), which he brought into the forefront of nuclear power generation; of cancer; in San Francisco.