Milestones, Aug. 23, 1971

Born. To Misha Dichter, 25, American piano prodigy who five years ago won second prize at the Third International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow; and Cipa Dichter, 25, Misha's former classmate at Juilliard: their first child, a boy; in Manhattan. Name: Gabriel Sviatoslav.

Died. Henry D. Haynes, 51, better known as Homer, the guitar-strumming, tobacco-chewing half of Homer and Jethro; of a heart attack; in Lansing, Ill. "Our first records were received with mixed emotions, like watching your mother-in-law drive your new Cadillac over a cliff," quipped Henry Haynes and Kenneth ("Jethro") Burns, the two...