Milestones: Jul. 22, 1985

DIED. Joan Wilson, 56, TV producer who kept even blasé viewers riveted to their sets on Sunday evenings with the British mini-series she imported from 1973 on for PBS's Emmy Award-winning Masterpiece Theater, including such classics as Upstairs, Downstairs; I, Claudius; and last season's The Jewel in the Crown;of cancer; in Boston.

DIED. Arnold Ray Miller, 62, former president of the United Mine Workers of America, who in 1972 mounted a successful insurgent candidacy that brought increased democracy to the union and in 1974 negotiated a contract widely regarded as the best ever, but whose leadership was subsequently plagued by factional...

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