Milestones, Oct. 16, 1972

Born. To Alexander Solzhenitsyn, 53, Nobel-prizewinning Soviet novelist (One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, The Cancer Ward, August 1914), and Natalya Solzhenitsyn, 32: their second child, second son; in Moscow. Name: Ignat.

Married. Christy Brown, 40, Irish novelist, poet and painter who, although almost totally paralyzed since birth by cerebral palsy, wrote a bestselling autobiographical book about family life in a Dublin slum (Down All the Days), typing the manuscript with the toes of his left foot; and Mary Carr, 27, dental receptionist; he for the first time, she for...

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