Milestones, Jan. 29, 1979

SEEKING DIVORCE. Luci Johnson Nugent, 31, younger daughter of late President Lyndon B. Johnson; from Patrick Nugent, 35, after twelve years of marriage, one son and three daughters; in Austin, Texas. The couple have been separated about a year; last November, Nugent quit his job as general manager of the Johnson family-owned radio station, KLBJ.

ILL. John Wayne, 71, the legendary "Duke" of Hollywood filmdom; with cancer; in Los Angeles. In a 9½-hour operation, Wayne's stomach was removed, but laboratory tests showed that the malignancy had spread to his gastric lymph nodes. The patient, whose cancerous left lung was removed in...

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