ENGAGED. Debby Boone, 22, pop singer (You Light Up My Life) and daughter of wholesome, white-bucked Pat Boone; and Gabriel Ferrer, 21, son of Jose Ferrer and Rosemary Clooney.

MARRIED. Bibi Andersson, 43, Swedish actress and longtime star of Ingmar Bergman films (The Seventh Seal); and Per Ahlmark, 39, chairman of the Swedish Film Institute and former head of his nation's Liberal Party; both for the second time; in Stockholm.

MARRIED. Rex Harrison, 70, English film and stage actor; and Mercia Tinker, fortyish, Singapore-born Swiss brunette; he for the sixth time; in Pawling, N.Y.

DIED. Houari Boumedienne, 53, President of Algeria since 1965; of a rare blood and bone-marrow disease known as Waldenstrom's macroglobulinemia, after lingering in a coma for 39 days; in Algiers (see WORLD).

DIED. Charles G. Mortimer, 78, head of General Foods Corp. (1954-65); of a heart attack; in Orleans, Mass. Joining the Postum Co. (later renamed General Foods) in 1928, Mortimer revolutionized the American kitchen by his masterful marketing of such convenience foods as Birds Eye frozen vegetables, Tang breakfast drink and Maxwell House instant coffee. Though he helped build General Foods into the world's largest processed food company, with annual sales of $1.5 billion, Mortimer knew his industry's limits. "You cannot sell me on some new food called 'Glatsky' that will have all the nutrients of steak," he once said. "I want my steak."

DIED. Louis de Rochemont, 79. hard-driving film producer who in 1934 joined with Roy Larsen, then circulation manager of TIME, to create the movie newsreel, The March of Time; after a lengthy illness; in York Harbor, Me. Starting his career at age 14 by filming his neighbors with a homemade camera, de Rochemont worked for Fox Movietone News before designing TIME's pioneering monthly film with its blend of news, dramatic re-enactments of events and controversial social comment, punctuated by a dynamic voice announcing "Time marches on!" After leaving March of Time in 1943 (eight years before its demise), de Rochemont produced semidocumentary feature films, including The House on 92nd Street (1945) and Lost Boundaries (1949).

DIED. Philip K. Hitti, 92, Syrian-born Orientalist and professor of Semitic literature at Princeton (1926-54) who pioneered the study of Arabic and Islamic cultures in the U.S.; in Princeton, N.J.

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