Milestones: Jul. 4, 1969

Married. Laura Louise Shepard, 21, older daughter of Astronaut Alan Shepard, the first American into space; and Army 2nd Lieut. Jonathan Churchill Snyder, 23, a former schoolmate at Principia College, Elsah, Ill.; in a Methodist ceremony in Houston.

Married. Theodore Sorensen, 41, former confidant and speechwriter for both John and Robert Kennedy, who is presently thinking about running for R.F.K.'s Senate seat from New York in 1970; and Gillian Martin, 28, daughter of President Nixon's newly appointed U.S. commissioner on aging; he for the third time; in a nondenominational ceremony in Grand Rapids, Mich.

Divorced. Burt Lancaster, 55, onetime acrobat turned Oscar-winning...

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