Milestones: Aug. 23, 1968

Divorced. By Mia Farrow, 23, wispy ex-star of TV's Peyton Place, who is now making it big in movies (latest: Rosemary's Baby); Frank Sinatra, 52; on grounds of cruelty and incompatibility; after two years of marriage, no children; in Juarez, Mexico.

Died. George P. Larrick, 66, Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration from 1954 to 1965; of a heart attack; in Washington, D.C. As head of FDA, Larrick fought for stiffer regulations of food additives, in 1961 prevented the sale of thalidomide because the drug was believed to cause deformed babies, and in...

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