Milestones: Nov. 15, 1982

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DIVORCED. Elizabeth Taylor Hilton Wilding Todd Fisher Burton Burton Warner, 50, violet-eyed empress of stage, screen and altar; and John Warner, 55, Republican Senator from Virginia; after six years of marriage; she for the sixth time, he for the second; in Fauquier County, Va.

DIED. Lester Roloff, 68, fiery fundamentalist preacher whose radio-based ministry financed controversy-ridden homes for rebellious children; when his private plane crashed, also killing four others; near Normangee, Texas. In his homes, Roloff enforced hard-nosed "godlines" (no coffee, newspapers, aspirins or TV), sometimes with whipping and paddling. To charges of excessive harshness, Roloff replied, "There's nothing wrong with handcuffing a girl to keep her from going to hell."

DIED. Jacques Tati, 75, whimsical French film maker, forever associated with his gangly, amiable and bewildered persona Monsieur Hulot; of a lung blood clot. A droll mime, Tati made films (Mr. Hulot's Holiday, 1954; the Oscar-winning Mon Onde, 1958; four others) that were meticulously wrought explosions of philosophical slapstick with little dialogue and less plot, suggesting that modern values are topsy-turvy. Said he: "What I am trying to prove is that at bottom everyone is amusing."

DIED. Waverley Root, 79, prolific Paris-based foreign correspondent and author of compendious books on haute cuisine; of lung disease; in Paris. Despite writing such weighty tomes as his two-volume The Secret History of the War and The Truth about Wagner, Root was savored most for gastronomic texts like The Food of France (1958). Root's cardinal rule for eating in Paris: Follow the taxi drivers.

DIED. Henry Tindall ("Dick") master pilot and aviation daredevil who made the first round-trip Atlantic flight in 1936 and who, during 41 years of flying, mostly for Eastern Airlines, logged nearly 50,000 hours, a feat unlikely to be matched by today's more regulated commercial pilots; of pneumonia; in Lake Elsinore, Calif.

DIED. King Vidor, 88, bold but adaptable Hollywood director who made his first full-length movie (The Turn in the Road) in 1919 and acted in his last one (Love and Money), released earlier this year; of congestive heart failure; in Paso Robles, Calif. Born in Galveston, Texas, Vidor favored epic spectacles and epochal statements in such movies as War and Peace (1956) and his 1925 antiwar triumph, The Big Parade. "My heroes," said Vidor, "don't bellyache; they wake up and they work for changes."

DIED. Edward Hallett Carr, 90, eminent historian and Cambridge don whose 14-volume History of Soviet Russia, published between 1950 and 1978, chronicled the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution and the decade afterward; in Cambridge, England.