Milestones: Aug. 29, 1969

Millestones

Married. Nora Avis Hope, 23, comedian Bob's raven-haired daughter and youngest of his four adopted children; and Samuel Boyd McCullagh Jr., 23, assistant director of admissions at the University of San Francisco; in a Roman Catholic ceremony in North Hollywood.

Divorced. By Loretta Young, 56, doe-eyed veteran movie and TV actress (The Loretta Young Show): Thomas H. Lewis, 65, retired ad executive and radio producer; on grounds of mental cruelty and desertion (they have been separated since 1956); after 29 years of marriage, three children; in Los Angeles.

Died. Albert Lingo, 59, chunky, bespectacled Alabama state trooper who, as former Governor George Wallace's state public-safety director from 1963 to 1965, led troopers armed with tear gas and electric cattle prods in bloody attacks on civil rights demonstrators in Birmingham and Selma; of a ruptured aorta; in Birmingham. "I am not a Nigra-hater," Lingo once said. "I've played with 'em, I've eaten with 'em and I've worked with 'em, but I still believe in segregation. You can say that some of my best friends are Nigras."

Died. Dr. Philip Blaiberg, 60, the South African dentist who survived for a record 594 days with a transplanted heart (see MEDICINE).

Died. Zaddie Bunker, 81, known as "the flying great-grandmother," who went buzzing off into the wild blue at an age when most of her contemporaries were shopping for rocking chairs; of cancer; in Palm Springs, Calif. Mrs. Bunker was 65 when she earned her pilot's license; a year later she took off on the first of three transcontinental solo flights ("Motoring just isn't safe enough," she explained) and at 71 rode through the sound barrier in an Air Force F-100F Super Sabre. Two years ago, she even applied to be an astronaut. "I could have done it," she insisted after NASA turned her down.

Died. Lou Stillman, 82, tough-talking, cigar-chewing patriarch of Stillman's Gym, for 38 years a monument to the prizefight game; in Santa Barbara, Calif. With an epic command of abusive language and a pistol in his pocket, Stillman presided from 1921 to 1959 over the gloomy New York City arena where Jack Dempsey, Georges Carpentier and Primo Camera—among thousands of others—worked out during their careers. "Big or small, champ or bum," he said, "I treated 'em all alike —bad. If you treat 'em like humans, they'll eat you alive."

Died. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, 83, titan of 20th century architecture (see ART).