Milestones, Aug. 2, 1976

Born. To Doris Kearns, 33, associate professor of government at Harvard and author of the bestselling Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream, and her husband Richard Goodwin, 44, a former speechwriter for J.F.K. and L.B.J., whose efforts to co-author an L.B.J. book with her resulted in a legal publishing tangle (TIME, June 30, 1975): their first child (his second son); in Boston. Name: Michael Edward.

Married. Tammy Wynette, 34, heart-in-the-throat queen of country-and-western song; and Michael Tomlin, 31, a Nashville real estate executive; she for the fourth time, he for the first; in Nashville, Tenn. Wynette postponed her honeymoon last week...

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