Milestones: Jun. 26, 1964

Born. To Jomo Kenyatta, 74, Kenya's "Burning Spear" in the days of Mau Mau terror, now Prime Minister, and Ngina Kenyatta, 34, his fourth wife: their second son, fourth child (his eighth); in Nairobi.

Died. Sir Henry Spurrier, 66, recently retired chairman of England's vast Leyland Motor Corp. Ltd., who inherited control from his father in 1942 when Leyland was limited to double-decker buses and army tanks, turned it into the world's largest manufacturer of heavy-duty vehicles by absorbing competitors and peddling everything from panel trucks to earth movers to 130 countries, including Castro's...

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