Milestones: Nov. 15, 1963

Born. To Bob Newhart, 34, button-down comedian, and Virginia Quinn Newhart, 22, onetime TV extra: their first child, a son; in Los Angeles.

Married. Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova, 26, Soviet cosmonette who on June 16 became the first woman in space; and Major Andrian Grigorievich Nikolayev, 34, third Soviet cosmonaut; in a civil ceremony at Moscow's Wedding Palace, followed by a televised reception featuring songs, dances, a sit-down dinner for 300, and Nikita Khrushchev performing as father of both bride and groom, in which role he hoisted 21 toasts to the couple (sample: "May...

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