Milestones: Oct. 11, 1963

Born. To Frankie Avalon, 23, aging teen warbler, and Kay Deibel Avalon, 25, former dental technician: their first child, a son; in Los Angeles.

Died. Valdimer Orlando Key Jr., 55, Texas-born Harvard history professor and political scientist, author of Politics, Parties and Pressure Groups, widely read study of U.S. voting by racial and economic blocs, and Southern Politics in State and Nation, a definitive analysis of the South's one-party form of government; of a heart ailment; in Brookline, Mass.

Died. Marshal Pavel Fedorovich Zhigarev, 63, onetime (1949-57) chief of the Soviet Air Force, later...

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