Milestones: May 12, 1961

Marriage Revealed. Thubten Jigme Norbu, 38, articulate eldest brother of Tibet's Dalai Lama, who came to the U.S. in 1951, is now working with University of Washington scholars on a cultural research project on Tibet; and Kunchok Sakyapa, 16, a Seattle junior high school student and member of a family ennobled by Kublai Khan in the 13th century, who escaped from Tibet in 1959, one week after the Dalai Lama; both for the first time; in Bothell, Wash., April 8.

Died. Henry J. Kaiser Jr., 44, lanky vice president and director of his father's...

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