Milestones: Sep. 30, 1966

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Married. Fabian Forte. 23. early rock 'n' roller currently doing the grade-B Hollywood bit (Dr. Goldfcot and the Love Bombs); and Kathleen Regan, 25, a model; in Berlin, N.J.

Married. Prince Michael of Prussia. 26, great-grandson of Kaiser Wilhelm II; and Jutta Joren, 24. a secretary he met in Manhattan while training as a Pan American Airways sales representative; in a civil ceremony in Dusseldorf, to be followed this week by a Lutheran ceremony at the Hohenzollern family estates near Bremen.

Divorced. Robert Culp. 36, TV actor (I Spy); by Nancy Culp, 32. on grounds of extreme mental cruelty; after nine years of marriage, four children: in Los Angeles.

Died. Valerie Jeanne Percy, 21, twin daughter of Illinois' Republican Senatorial Candidate Charles Percy; murdered by an unknown assailant; in Kenilworth, Ill. (seeTHE NATION).

Died. George Skakel Jr., 44, brother of Ethel Kennedy and head, since their parents' death in a plane crash, of the family-controlled Great Lakes Carbon Corp. (1965 sales: an estimated $125 million); with four other men (including onetime Kennedy Aide Dean Markham) in a plane crash during an elk-hunting trip; near Riggins, Idaho.

Died. George P. Vierheller, 84, director of the St. Louis Zoo from 1922 to 1962, a latter-day Noah who transformed his domain from a dreary bar-and-cage animal prison into a bright parkland with moated outdoor bear pits (an idea imported from Germany), sunlit monkey houses and aviaries, and circus-style animal acts, all of which set a new style for zoos in the U.S.; of a heart attack; in St. Louis.

Died. Hubert Eaton, 85, founder of Forest Lawn cemetery and early architect of the American way of death: after a long illness; in Beverly Hills (see MODERN LIVING).

Died. Paul Reynaud, 87, Premier of France during the 1940 debacle; of complications following abdominal surgery; in Neuilly, France. Sometimes brilliant, always outspoken, Reynaud was one of history's political unfortunates. Through the 1930s, he and other moderate conservatives warned in vain about the growing Nazi threat; when he finally came to power in the spring of 1940, it was too late for anything except to preside over the fall of France —which is how Frenchmen remember him, though they might also note that he started Charles de Gaulle on his way with an appointment in 1940 as Under Secretary of State for Defense.