Milestones: Feb. 11, 1966

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Born. To Aye Aye Mynt U, 26, daughter of U.N. Secretary General U Thant, and Tin Mynt U, 29, Manhattan College assistant professor of math: a son, U Thant's first grandchild; in Manhattan.

Divorced. By Patricia Kennedy Lawford, 41, second youngest of the Kennedy sisters, and the only one to marry a non-Catholic: Peter Lawford, 42, actor and Sinatra clansman; on uncontested grounds of mental cruelty; after 11 years of marriage, four children; in Gooding, Idaho.

Died. James Albert Pike Jr., 22, oldest son of California's Episcopal Bishop James A. Pike; by his own hand (.30-.30 cal. rifle); in a Manhattan hotel room, after returning from study at England's Cambridge University.

Died. Barbara Ann Rooney, 29, sometime actress, fifth wife of movie actor Mickey Rooney; by gunshot (.38-cal. pistol), apparently at the hand of her friend of recent months, Milos Milosevic, 24, a sometime actor, who then committed suicide; in Mickey's Brentwood, Calif., home, after she had visited her ill (with a blood infection) husband in a nearby hospital, and promised not to see Milosevic again.

Died. Lucius Beebe, 63, fulltime dandy, a Boston banker's son who once wrote that "the trivia of life may be the solution for all the ills of a fretful and feverish world," remained wedded only to elegance, which he took to be his taste in dress (top hat and morning suit), food (champagne and pate), railroads (which he glorified in books and in his private Pullman), and cafe society, whose doings he reported, first for the New York Herald Tribune and later for the San Francisco Chronicle; of a heart attack; in San Mateo, Calif.

Died. Leonard Heinrich, 65, armor expert at Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art, who in 1941, after a Pentagon call for something better than the antiquated "tin hat" helmet, designed the low-slung M-4 "steel pot," used in World War II, Korea and now in Viet Nam; of a heart attack; in Clarksville, N.J.

Died. June Walker, 65, who flapped her way to fame in 1926 as the first Lorelei Lee of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, demonstrated her versatility by playing everything from a brassy prostitute in Waterloo Bridge to a doting mother in Blue Denim; of emphysema; in Sherman Oaks, Calif.

Died. Buster Keaton, 70, "the Great Stone Face" of the silent screen; of lung cancer; in Woodland Hills, Calif. (see SHOW BUSINESS).

Died. Lewis Stiles Gannett, 74, naturalist, author (Young China) and for 25 years book reviewer of the New York Herald Tribune, who reported on 7,500 books, wrote 6,000 columns on everything from beards to katydids, once mused that "the ideal book reviewer is a superficial sort of fellow"; of leukemia; in Sharon, Conn.

Died. Hedda Hopper, 75, Hollywood's genial scold; of pneumonia; in Los Angeles (see SHOW BUSINESS).

Died. Paul Manship, 80, front-ranking U.S. sculptor, widely acclaimed for his heroic-sized, neoclassic figures (notably, the 15-ft. Prometheus in Manhattan's Rockefeller Center), but also for finely wrought bronze medals (World War II's Merchant Marine Medal) and busts (Franklin D. Roosevelt); of a heart attack; in Manhattan.