Milestones, Jul. 14, 1975

Married. Cher Bono, 29, TV singer (TIME, March 17); and Gregg Allman, 27, lead singer-organist with the Allman Brothers rock band; he for the third time, she for the second; three days after divorcing her former TV partner, Sonny Bono; in Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas. Wearing an ice blue satin gown, teetotaler Cher downed a Coca-Cola toast to her new husband. The groom's down-home grandmother, Myrtle Allman, 74, sounded pleased—more or less. "I'm sure I'll love her," she said, then added that it would be nice if Cher "started wearing some more clothes."

Died. Tim Buckley, 28, folk balladeer of the late '60s; of an apparent heart attack; in his Santa Monica, Calif., home. Buckley's sensitive lyrics (Goodbye and Hello) and ragged, mother-me looks earned him adulation beginning with his first album in 1966, but his shift to jazzier, more experimental forms cut sharply into his popularity and income.

Died. Richard P. Loving, 42, a Virginia construction worker whose marriage to his Indian-Negro childhood sweetheart led to a landmark civil rights ruling; in an auto accident; in Caroline County, Va. Routed from bed at 2 a.m. five weeks after their 1958 marriage, the Lovings were sentenced to a year in jail or 25 years of exile from the state for violating Virginia's antimiscegenation laws. After five hardscrabble years in Washington, D.C., they chose to return home and fight the statute, winning in 1967 the Supreme Court's ruling in Lovings v. Virginia that voided all state laws against interracial marriages.

Died. Constantinos Apostolos Doxiadis, 62, visionary Greek city and regional planner; of multiple sclerosis; in Athens (see ENVIRONMENT).

Died. James Robertson Justice, 70, doughty, spade-bearded Scottish actor; following a series of strokes; in King's Somborne, England. Gruff-voiced and massive (270 lbs.), Justice appeared in more than 40 films, among them Moby Dick, Les Misérables and The Guns of Navarone. He was best known as the irascible surgeon Sir Lancelot Spratt in the British Doctor comedy series of the 1950s and '60s.

Died. Wolf Ladejinsky, 76, Russian-born land reformer; in Washington, D.C. A specialist in Soviet and Asian farm policies, Ladejinsky was tapped by General Douglas MacArthur in 1945 to draw up a land reform bill for occupied Japan. The legislation he drafted emancipated Japan's tenant farmers enabling millions of them to acquire title to their plots and toppling forever the base of Japanese feudalism.