MARRIED. Andrew Lloyd Webber, 36, British pop composer (Cats, Evita); and Sarah Brightman, 23, dancer; both for the second time; in Kingsclere, Hampshire, England. They then sped back to London as husband and wife to meet the Queen at a preview of Webber’s new musical, Starlight Express.
INDICTED. Denny McLain, 39, former pitching star of the Detroit Tigers from 1963 to 1970 and the American League’s Most Valuable Player in 1968, when his 31-6 record made him the latest major-leaguer to win at least 30 games in one season; on five counts of drug dealing, racketeering and extortion, including conspiracy to smuggle 400 kg of cocaine; in Tampa.
CONVICTED. John Cordeiro, 24, and Victor Raposo, 23, two of the six men charged with gang-raping a 21-year-old woman on a New Bedford, Mass., barroom pool table in March 1983; in Fall River, Mass. Two other defendants were acquitted at last week’s trial; the final two, Daniel Silva, 27, and Joseph Vieira, 28, were found guilty on March 17.
CLEARED. Leneli Geter, 26, Texas engineer; of charges of holding up a fried-chicken restaurant for $615, for which he was convicted and given a life sentence in October 1982 despite testimony from his colleagues that he was at work at the time; in Dallas. A publicity campaign contending that Geter was a victim of racism, and a 60 Minutes segment last December, had already pressured the Dallas county district attorney into granting a new trial, scheduled for April 9, when another suspect was implicated last week.
DIED. Otto Eckstein, 56, staunchly liberal German-born economist, Harvard professor, member of the Council of Economic Advisers under Lyndon Johnson and longtime participant on TIME’S Board of Economists, who promoted the science of econometric forecasting into an indispensable tool of government and business planning and founded a highly successful business, Data Resources Inc., which, when sold to McGraw-Hill in 1979, made him a multimillionaire; of cancer; in Boston.
DIED. Garry Winogrand, 56, photographer who, beginning in advertising and photojournalism with Life and Look in the 1950s, developed an energetic and unusual style of street photography that presented images of teeming activity and accidental, often incongruous conjunctions of people and things; of cancer; in Tijuana, Mexico.
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