Milestones: Nov. 15, 1968

Presumed Dead. Charles G. Reid, 42, captain of Moore-McCormack Lines' cruise ship S.S. Argentina, who joined the company in 1949 as a junior officer, later skippered freighters before taking command of passenger vessels three years ago; after vanishing mysteriously from his ship (Moore-McCormack says he apparently committed suicide by jumping out his cabin window) en route from Jamaica to Bermuda.

Died. Sir Harold Raggatt, 68, long-time director of Australia's Bureau of Mineral Resources (1942-51) and Department of National Development (1951-64); of a heart attack; in Canberra. Sir Harold planned the first complete geological...

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