Milestones, Jun. 15, 1959

Married. Dr. Hans Albert Einstein, 55, son of Physicist Albert Einstein, professor of hydraulic engineering at the University of California; and Elizabeth Roboz, 56, research biochemist at Stanford University Medical School; he for the second time, she for the first; in Berkeley, Calif.

Died. Charles Vidor, 58, Hungarian-born Hollywood director (The Swan, Hans Christian Anderson), who promoted Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford and other stars; of a heart attack; in Vienna.

Died. Dr. Morton Charles Kahn, 63, adventurous bacteriologist who tramped through the jungles of South America on numerous expeditions to study tropical diseases, developed (1948) a trap that could destroy 1,500 malaria-bearing mosquitoes...

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