Milestones, Aug. 30, 1971

Born. To Diana Ross, 27, singer and exemplar of the Motown Sound, and Robert Ellis Silberstein, 25, Los Angeles public relations executive: their first child, a daughter; in Hollywood. Name: Rhonda Suzanne.

Died. Peter Fleming, 64, peripatetic man of action and letters; of a heart attack; in Black Mount, Scotland. Though less famous as a writer than his older brother Ian, who created James Bond, Peter Fleming produced minor classics. His books Brazilian Adventure (1933) and News from Tartary (1936) are still in print. The first, which spoofed superserious adventure tales, was based on...

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