Milestones: May 18, 1970

Married. Judy Carne, 31, Laugh-In’s “Sock-It-To-Me” girl, presently starring in Broadway’s The Boy Friend; and Robert Bergmann, 23, producer of TV commercials; she for the second time, he for the first; in a Unitarian ceremony attended by 100 onlookers and held at dawn in Manhattan’s Central Park.

Died. H. James Shea Jr., 30, Massachusetts Democratic state legislator who sponsored the bill under which state residents may refuse to fight abroad in undeclared wars, thereby setting up a possible constitutional test of the Viet Nam War; of a single gunshot wound in the head by his own hand (.38 cal. revolver); in Newton, Mass.

Died. Eugenia Niarchos, 44, third wife of Stavros Niarchos, Greek shipping baron and archrival of Aristotle Onassis; of an overdose of barbiturates; on her husband’s privately owned islet of Spetsopoula, 56 miles southwest of Athens. In a game of musical marital chairs, Stavros divorced Eugenia in 1965 to marry Charlotte Ford, who bore him a daughter six months later. They were divorced within 15 months, after which Niarchos found his way back to Eugenia, said a friend, like “one of his own tankers drifting back to home port after a transatlantic junket.”

Died. Walter P. Reuther, 62, for 24 years president of the United Automobile Workers and champion of progressive trade unionism; in the crash of a small chartered jet near Pellston, Mich. Reuther, who started as an apprentice tool and die maker at 15, went on to become one of the most controversial figures in the U.S. labor movement. Fired by Ford for union activity in 1933, he later worked as an organizer for the fledgling U.A.W., survived severe shotgun wounds in 1948 to pioneer the guaranteed annual wage principle for the automobile industry in 1955. Reuther led the C.I.O. into a historic merger with the A.F.L., but grew so discontented with George Meany’s leadership that in 1968 he withdrew his carefully honest union to form a bizarre alliance with the Teamsters. In frustration, he watched the American labor movement dilute its once-ferocious militancy.

Died. Paulina Z. Zhemchozina, 76, wife of former Premier and Foreign Minister Vyacheslav M. Molotov; of cancer; in Moscow. As ardent a Communist as her husband, she climbed the Soviet bureaucracy, first as director of a perfume factory, later as head of the cosmetics trust. In 1939, she became one of the first women to achieve Cabinet rank as Minister of Fisheries. She fell into disfavor with Stalin, lost her job and was exiled for a time—even though her husband remained one of the dictator’s most important henchmen.