Milestones: Oct. 7, 1966

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Born. To Winston Spencer Churchill II, 25, BBC commentator, Randolph's son and Sir Winston's grandson; and Minnie d'Erlanger Churchill, 26, daughter of the late BOAC chief: their sec ond child, first daughter; in London.

Married. Marie-Denise Duvalier, 24, eldest daughter of Haitian Dictator Fran?ois ("Papa Doc") Duvalier; and Jerome Max Dominique, 26, a captain in the Presidential Guard; he for the second time; in Port-au-Prince.

Married. Senta Berger, 25, Austrian starlet, the tastiest thing in Bang! Bang! You're Dead.'; and Dr. Michael Verhoeven, 28, a pediatrician; both for the first time; in Munich.

Married. Maria Schell, 40, Viennese movie star; and Veit Relin (real name: Franz Pichler), 40, avant-garde theater director and father of her three-monthold daughter; both for the second time; in Reitmehring, Germany.

Divorced. By Forbes Burnham, 43, Prime Minister of Guyana (formerly British Guiana), newest nation in the Western Hemisphere: Sheila Lataste Burnham, 41, a former Trinidad optician; on grounds of desertion (he said that she left him, refused to return); after 15 years of marriage, three children; in Georgetown, Guyana.

Died. Eric Fleming, 41, actor, star for six years (1960-65) of TV's Rawhide, who claimed that he was "an ugly kid" until he joined the Seabees and a 200-lb. counterweight fell on him, crushing his face, after which Navy plastic surgeons made him handsome enough to become an actor; of drowning while filming a jungle movie; on the Huallaga River in the remote Tingo Maria area of Peru.

Died. Helen Kane, 62, a saucy soubrette from The Bronx who could barely sing a note, but in the flapper-happy '20s turned a baby voice, puckered-up lips, a couple of songs (/ Wanna Be Loved by You, Button Up Your Overcoat) and one nonsense phrase ("boop-boop-a-doop") into a national craze; of cancer; in Queens, N.Y.

Died. Gus Edson, 65, cartoonist, who in 1935 switched from sports on the New York Daily News to comic strips when he took over The Gumps after the death of its creator, Sidney Smith, for the next 25 years kept the noisy ("Oh, Mini"), argumentative family (Andy, Min, Uncle Bim and Momma De Stross) yelling happily at one another until its popularity waned and he turned exclusively to Dondi, the sentimental story of an Italian waif in the U.S., currently in 138 newspapers; of a heart attack; in Stamford, Conn.

Died. Lillian Smith, 68, Southern gentlewoman author and front-line campaigner for racial equality; of cancer; in Atlanta (see THE NATION).

Died. Andre Breton, 70, French poet-philosopher, the father of surrealism; of a heart attack; in Paris. A onetime medical student with a dual penchant for poetry and psychiatry, Breton brought Freudian psychology into art and literature, turning to stream-of-consciousness and free-association techniques in his poems and dreamlike novels (Nadja, Les Vases Communicants), expounded his ideas in two Manifestes du Surrealisme (1924 and 1930), found ready disciples in art (Salvador Dali) and letters (French Poets Louis Aragon and Paul Eluard).