Milestones: Nov. 17, 1961

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Married. Prince Moulay Abdallah, 26, younger brother of Morocco's King Hassan II; and Lamia Solh, 26, golden-haired, Sorbonne-schooled daughter of onetime Lebanese Premier Riad Solh, who was assassinated in 1951; both for the first time; in Rabat, Morocco.

Married. Richard Savitt, 34, 1951 Wimbledon champion who now mixes stock brokerage with the racquets, last February retired the National Indoor tennis trophy by winning it for the third time; and Louise Liberman, 20, Manhattan debutante; both for the first time; in Manhattan.

Died. Robert Walter Scott McLeod, 47. State Department security watchdog under John Foster Dulles and Ambassador to Ireland from 1957 to 1961, an ex-FBI man who forced the dismissal or resignation of 300 State Department employees in his first year at Foggy Bottom, ultimately became so much of a storm center that Dwight Eisenhower sent him off to Dublin after a bitter Senate confirmation debate in which McLeod was denounced by Pennsylvania's Democratic Senator Joseph Clark as a "symbol of the witch hunter" of the McCarthy era; of a heart attack; in Concord, N.H.

Died. Colonel Ulius Louis Amoss, U.S.A.F. Reserve, 67. a onetime Y.M.C.A. secretary who parlayed World War II intelligence experience into a profitable civilian career, ran what he asserted was the world's largest private spy network (7,000 agents by his count), claimed complicity in a clutch of international intrigues straight out of E. Phillips Oppenheim, including a plot to smuggle Stalin's son out of Russia; of a heart attack; in Baltimore.

Died. Harvey Slocum, 75. tough-talking U.S. engineer who bossed the construction of India's giant (740 ft. high) and all-but-completed Bhakra Dam, a self-educated ex-laborer who helped build Hoover and Grand Coulee dams and whose overriding ego—he called himself "the best damn dam builder in the world" —was matched only by his professional skill; of a heart attack; in Nangal, India.

Died. Dr. Channing Heggie Tobias. 79, stubborn crusader for Negroes' rights, a Georgia-born Methodist minister and Y.M.C.A. executive who served as board chairman of the N.A.A.C.P. from 1953 to 1960, balanced militancy with moderation after the Supreme Court's 1954 school desegregation decision, urged upon his fellow Negroes "the spirit of give and take"; of a stroke; in Manhattan.

Died. Richard P. Hughes, 84. a longtime local power in New Jersey's Democratic politics; of a heart attack; in Burlington, N.J.. two days before his son, Richard J., became the state's Democratic Governor-elect.