Milestones: Dec. 15, 1961

Born. To R. (for Rupert) Vance Hartke, 42, ex-mayor of Evansville, Ind., who in 1958 became his state's first Democratic U.S. Senator in 20 years, and Martha Tiernan Hartke, 41, his Indiana University sweetheart: their seventh child, third daughter; in Fairfax, Va.

Born. To Sir Laurence Olivier, 54, Britain's towering trouper, and his Tony-winning third wife, Actress Joan (A Taste of Honey) Plowright, 32: a son, their first child and his second (the other, by First Wife Jill Esmond, is now 24 and roving in the Far East); in Hove, East Sussex.

Married. Princess Antoinette...

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