Milestones Apr. 29, 1996

RELEASED. F. LEE BAILEY, 62, lawyer; from 44 days in jail for contempt of court; after agreeing to hand over 400,000 shares of stock belonging to an ex-client; in Tallahassee, Florida. Bailey had considered the stock payment for his services.

SENTENCED. ERIK MENENDEZ, 25, and brother LYLE MENENDEZ, 28, to life without parole for the murder of their parents; in Los Angeles.

DIED. MICHELLE CAREW, 18, daughter of baseball great Rod Carew; of leukemia; in Orange County, California. The search for bone-marrow donors turned her father into an advocate for transplant candidates, and her plight drew national attention to minority and biracial patients.

DIED. JAMES ("Jimmy the Gent") BURKE, 64, clotheshorse, gangster and suspected mastermind of the $6 million Lufthansa heist of 1978; of cancer; in Buffalo, New York. Robert De Niro played Burke in the film Goodfellas.

DIED. TOMAS GUTIERREZ ALEA, 67, director; of cancer; in Mexico City. In Castro's Cuba he created daring films such as Strawberry and Chocolate (1993), a portrait of a gay Cuban, and Memories of Underdevelopment (1968), an ironic view of the revolution.

DIED. DON CLAYTON, 70, miniature-golf king; of internal bleeding; in Fayetteville, North Carolina. He replaced garish windmills and gimmicks with truly difficult greens, turning child's play into a test of skill--and 265 Putt-Putt courses.

DIED. STAVROS NIARCHOS, 86, last of the "Golden Greek" tycoons, famed for his wealth ($4 billion in shipping, real estate, oil), women (six marriages to five women) and rivalry with Aristotle Onassis; in Zurich.

DIED. CHARLES ALFRED ANDERSON, 89, African-American aviator who trained the decorated black World War II pilots "the Tuskegee Airmen"; in Tuskegee, Alabama.