Milestones: May 24, 1968

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Married. H. Rap Brown, 24, Black Power advocate and militant head of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, currently on trial in New Orleans for carrying a rifle across state lines while under indictment; and Lynne Doswell, 22, New York City schoolteacher; both for the first time; on May 3, in Mamaroneck, N.Y.

Married. David Rockefeller Jr., 26, whose dad holds the purse strings at the Chase Manhattan Bank; and Sydney Roberts, 24, daughter of a Penn-Central Railroad executive; in BalaCynwyd, Pa.

Died. Major General Ivan Agayants, 57, high-ranking Soviet intelligence officer, a deputy director in the huge State Security Committee (KGB), whose twin specialties were NATO espionage and the dissemination of "black propaganda" to undercut enemy agencies; of undisclosed causes; somewhere in the Soviet Union. As one of three deputies in the KGB's Division I (foreign espionage), Agayants was responsible for the vast Soviet network that was recently the subject of an explosive LIFE article by onetime French Agent Philippe Thyraud de Vosjoli.

Died. William P. Kennedy, 76, head of the 200,000-man Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen from 1949 to 1962, remembered for a paralyzing strike during the Korean War; in Minneapolis. "We've won a tremendous victory," crowed Kennedy, whose call for a national strike in 1950 prompted the Government to take over the roads. Finally, in May 1951, the railroads threw in the towel, signed a contract giving Kennedy's men a $97 million-a-year wage increase.

Died. Rear Admiral Husband E. Kimmel, 86, commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor during the devastating Japanese attack on Dec. 7, 1941; of a heart attack; in Groton, Conn. In a military investigation following the Pearl Harbor debacle, Kimmel and his Army counterpart, Lieut. General Walter C. Short, were charged with "unpreparedness" in allowing themselves to be caught so totally by surprise. Both were relieved of command after which they quickly retired from service. To his dying day, Kimmel believed that he was the scapegoat of an F.D.R. maneuver "to get the U.S. into the war."

Died. Morton J. May, 86, president from 1917 to 1957 and later chairman of the St. Louis-based May Co. department stores, a family enterprise founded in 1877 by his father that today encompasses 80 stores across the U.S. with sales of more than $1 billion-of a heart attack; in Clayton, Mo.