Monday, Apr. 16, 1979
MARRIED. Patricia Campbell Hearst, 25, heiress, kidnap victim and convicted bank robber; and Bernard Shaw, 33, a burly cop who was her bodyguard before she went to jail; she for the first time, he for the second; in San Francisco.
MARRIED. Rod Stewart, 34, roistering British rock star with a penchant for blonds, including Actress Britt Ekland, who sued him for more than $15 million after they separated; and Alana Collins Hamilton, 33, a blond actress divorced from Actor George Hamilton; he for the first time, she for the second; in Beverly Hills.
DIED. Gordon Parks Jr., 44, black photographer and film maker (Super Fly, Thomasine & Bushrod) who followed in the footsteps of his famous father, LIFE Photojournalist and Film Director Gordon Parks; in a plane crash near Nairobi, where he was directing a new film.
DIED. Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, 51, former Prime Minister of Pakistan; by hanging; in Rawalpindi, Pakistan (see WORLD).
DIED. Amir Abbas Hoveida, 60, for 13 years (1965-77) Iran's Prime Minister and the Shah's closest adviser; before a firing squad; in Tehran. Hoveida presided over Iran's "White Revolution" of land reform and modernization in the mid-1960s but was arrested in November 1978 on the Shah's orders on suspicion of corruption. An Islamic court found him guilty of corruption, heroin smuggling, spying for the U.S., and "Zionism."
DIED. Carroll Rosenbloom, 72, flamboyant owner of the Los Angeles Rams professional football team; by drowning; in the surf off Golden Beach, Fla. Rosenbloom parlayed a small Virginia denim factory into a $175 million-a-year business before buying a share of football's Baltimore Colts in 1953. He saw the Colts win four league championships and the 1971 Super Bowl, in 1972 swapped them for the Rams, who won six consecutive division titles but never a Super Bowl. Gruff and outspoken, he tangled often with league officials, local politicians and coaches but was scrupulously fair to his players, giving them loans and savvy investment counsel.
DIED. Edgar Buchanan, 76, veteran character actor in nearly 100 films, most of them grade-B westerns, who won his widest recognition as Uncle Joe in TV's Petticoat Junction; of complications following brain surgery; in Palm Desert, Calif.
DIED. Max Conrad, 76, the "flying grandfather" who set six distance and endurance records in the air; in his sleep; in Summit, NJ. In 1950, to visit his wife and their nine children in Europe, Conrad soloed in a tiny Piper Pacer from New York to Geneva. Hooked by the fame that followed, he made nearly 200 transoceanic flights in small planes.
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