Born. To King Simeon II, 28, deposed ruler of Bulgaria; and Margarita Gomez-Acebo y Cejuela, 29, Madrid socialite; their third child, third son; in Madrid. Title: Prince Kubrat of Panagyurishte.

Married. Mary Oppenheimer, 21, only daughter of South African Diamond King and Apartheid Critic Harry Oppenheimer, herself a devoted social worker among Africans; and Gordon Waddell, 28, Scots stockbroker; in a glittering ceremony in Johannesburg's St. Mary's Cathedral, outside of which jostling crowds of wildly cheering blacks and whites were kept at bay by police using walkie-talkies and Alsatian dogs, followed by a lavish reception attended by 1,000 members of the white elite.

Died. Private First Class John Da vid Rogers, 18, adopted son of Singing Cowboy Stars Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, and third of their nine children to die; of asphyxiation due to choking, after celebrating his promotion to pfc; in Gelnhausen, Germany.

Died. Roy August Fruehauf, 57, president and then chairman of Fruehauf Corp., world's largest maker of truck trailers (1964 sales: $313 million) founded by his father in 1918, who in 1953 squeezed his brother out as chairman and staved off a muchpublicized proxy raid with the aid of a $1,500,000 stock-purchase loan from then Teamster Boss Dave Beck, five years later found himself indicted along with Beck for repaying the favor with a $200,000 loan of his own (illegal under the Taft-Hartley Act), was eventually acquitted, but not before a group of dissident directors had forced him out of office; of a stroke; in Royal Oak, Mich.

Died. Myron Melvin Cowen, 67, U.S. Ambassador to Australia (1948-49), the Philippines (1949-51) and Belgium (1952-53), whose greatest contribution came while adviser to Philippine President Elpidio Quirino, when he was instrumental in planning the suppression of the Communist-led Huk rebellion and starting the near-bankrupt islands on the road to solvency, offering up to $250 million in U.S. aid, conditional upon basic reforms; of a hemorrhage following brain surgery; in Washington.

Died. Andrew Joseph Gillis, 69, hell-raising ofttime mayor of Newburyport, Mass. (pop. 14,100), a brawling Irishman known as "Bossy," who bulled his way through six sporadic two-year terms between 1927 and 1959, engaging in such shenanigans (chopping down city-owned trees, libeling a judge) that he was arrested countless times, sentenced to two jail terms, and finally proved too much even for the whimsical citizens of his old seafaring town;* of a heart attack two days after losing his 20th bid for mayor; in Newburyport.

Died. Herbert Vere Evatt, 71, Australian Foreign Minister (1941-49) and Labor Party leader (1951-60), who took his Commonwealth nation out of Britain's shadow and gave it a more nationalistic foreign policy, becoming a spokesman for other less-powerful nations at the drafting of the U.N. Charter, but proved unsuccessful at home as head of the Opposition Labor Party, primarily because of his ultraliberal defense of many Communist causes (the 1954 Petrov spy scandal), which split the once-powerful Laborites and cost them every election since 1951; of pneumonia; in Canberra, Australia.

Died. Austin Cottrell Taylor, 76, Canadian financier, father-in-law of Conservative Editor-Politician William F.

Buckley Jr., who made his first $1,000,000 in the stock market before he was 21, went on to convert failing oil, lumber and munitions companies into booming moneymakers and turn British Columbia's near-bankrupt Bralorne Mines into one of the continent's top gold producers; of arteriosclerosis; in Vancouver, B.C.

Died. Paul Atlee Walker, 84, former chairman of the Federal Communica- tions Commission, an Oklahoma attorney appointed to the newly created regulatory body in 1934 as one of seven commissioners, who made headlines with an exhausting 1935-38 probe of American Telephone & Telegraph Co. that resulted in eventual rate reductions, during his brief chairmanship (1952-53) allocated 242 channels for educational TV; of a stroke; in Norman, Okla.

* Also the hometown of the late J. P. Marquand and the setting for some of his novels.

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