Married. Raquel Welch, 24, would-be actress (Fantastic Voyage) and full-time cover girl, at least in Europe, where she reigns as undisputed queen of the newsstands; and Patrick Curtis, 32, her business manager and steady house guest; she for the second time; in a civil ceremony in Paris, for which she wore a white peekaboo minidress over a flesh-colored body stocking.
Married. Claude Roy Kirk Jr., 41, Florida's first Republican Governor since 1872; and Erika Mittfeld, 32, a dashing German-born blonde; he for the third time, she for the second; in Palm Beach.
Died. Francis Joseph ("Muggsy") Spanier, 60, another of Dixieland's good men tried and true, a cornetist who in the 1920s and early '30s was the rage of Chicago speakeasy society, went on to tour the land with Ted Lewis, Ben Pollack, and eventually with his own Dixieland band, surviving bop and all the new styles until 1964 when ill health forced his retirement; of a heart disease; in Sausalito, Calif.
Died. J. Robert Oppenheimer, 63, renowned wartime atomic physicist and center of a subsequent storm over his loyalty; after a long illness; in Princeton, N.J. Tall, thin and reserved, the son of German immigrants, Oppenheimer was a pioneer student of relativity and quantum theory at Caltech in 1943 when he was called upon to lead the Los Alamos scientists in their race to give the U.S. the world's first nuclear weapon. It was a task he discharged brilliantly, and then in peacetime, as chief adviser to the A.E.G., turned around to argue bitterly against carrying on with the vastly more powerful hydrogen bomb. His stand, along with disclosure of his past left-wing association, stirred a nationwide controversy that culminated in 1954 with the revocation of his security clearance, after which he returned to academe as director of Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study, seeking, as he recently said, "an understanding, both historical and philosophical, of what the sciences have brought human life."
Died. Samuel Briskman, 70, a onetime Manhattan textile merchant who in 1931, while tinkering with two bread knives, devised a saw-toothed scissors that kept fabrics from unraveling by cutting a zigzag line, thereby earning himself a fortune in the manufacture of what became known as pinking shears; of a heart attack; in Miami Beach.