Milestones: Jul. 29, 1966

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Married. Vonda Kay Van Dyke, 23, Sunday-school teacher, ventriloquist, Miss America 1965; and Dr. C. Andrew Laird, 29, U.C.L.A. Medical Center resident in surgery; in Phoenix, Ariz.

Married. Amirabass Hoveida, 46, Premier of Iran since the assassination (1965) of Premier Hassanali Mansur; and Lili Emami-Khouei, 32, Mansur's sister-in-law, after a ten-year courtship; at Khair-Roud on the Caspian Sea.

Married. Frank Sinatra, 50, Grand Dragon of Hollywood's Clan; and Mia Farrow, 21, actress (TV's Peyton Place); he for the third time (his last: Ava Gardner); in Las Vegas. After a 20-month semipublic courtship, the pair whisked in by private jet (he from New York, she from Los Angeles), just in time for a five-minute ceremony by a judge in a suite at the Sands, a Vegas gambling spa and Sinatra pad. Wedding Guest Red Skelton said it all: "The bride took her thumb out of her mouth, and Frank put the ring on her finger."

Divorced. By Robert Bolt, 41, playwright (A Man for All Seasons) and Oscar-winning film scenarist (Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago): Celia Ann Bolt; on uncontested grounds of adultery with Gordon Leslie Riddett, general handyman on the Bolts' Hampshire estate; after 17 years of marriage, one son, two daughters; in London.

Died. Montgomery Clift, 45, actor, whose boyish looks, lopsided grin and hesitant drawl made him an instant Hollywood star in Red River (1948), but who never bought his own myth, never adopted Hollywood for his own (he would not live there), and whose acting talents, which won him four Oscar nominations, kept him a star even after a 1956 auto accident badly marred his face; of coronary arteriosclerosis; in Manhattan.

Died. Thomas Jefferson Williams, 73, U.S.-born Argentine industrialist, one of the richest men in Latin America, who in 1914 quit a bank clerk's job to peddle toweling door to door in Argentina, used his commissions to start his own business, then built up a massive (20 company) textile-chemical-mining-auto complex; of complications following a poisonous spider bite; in Buenos Aires.

Died. Mary L. Jobe Akeley, 80, explorer, geographer, mountaineer and author (Restless Jungle) who, when her husband Carl Akeley died on a trip to Africa (1926), took on his life's work, mapped the Congo, Kenya and Tanganyika, fought to protect Africa's vanishing wildlife, gave animals and funds to the African Hall of Manhattan's Museum of Natural History; of cerebral thrombosis; in Stonington, Conn.