Milestones: Jan. 12, 1968

Divorced. Jean-Paul Belmondo, 34, the French cinema's favorite boogeyman (Breathless, The Thief of Paris); and Elodie Belmondo, 31; by mutual consent; after nine years of marriage, three children; in Paris. He charged her with "a guilty relationship with a friend in Switzerland" and she accused him of "corporal relations with a well-known actress" (Ursula Andress' best notice to date).

Died. The Rt. Rev. Joost de Blank, 59, former Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town; of a stroke; in London. Arriving in South Africa in 1957, the Dutch-born prelate raged against apartheid, calling for an end...

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