Milestones, Aug. 5, 1957

Born. To Gina Lollobrigida, 29, Italian cinemactress (Beat the Devil, Woman of Rome), and Drago Milan (Mirko) Skofic, 37, Yugoslav-born physician: a son, their first child; in Rome. Name: Mirko. Weight: 6 lbs. 11 oz.

Died. Carlos Castillo Armas, 42, President of Guatemala since 1954; by an assassin's bullet; in Guatemala City (see THE HEMISPHERE).

Died. Admiral Frederick Carl Sherman, 69, U.S.N., ret. (1947), skipper of the World War II aircraft carrier Lexington, and the last to leave her before she finally sank (May 8, 1942) in the Battle of the Coral Sea; of a heart ailment; in San Diego. A World War...

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