Milestones, Feb. 9, 1976

Divorced. Glenda Jackson, 39, Academy Award-winning actress (Women in Love, A Touch of Class); and Stage Director Roy Hodges, 48; after 18 years of marriage, one child; in London.

Died. Vivian Wilson Henderson, 52, economist, author and president of predominantly black Clark College in Atlanta since 1965; while undergoing open-heart surgery after a heart attack; in Atlanta. Describing himself as an economist who happened to be a college president, the University of Iowa-educated Henderson argued that the key social issue in America was not race but class. Said he: "We have programs for combatting racial discrimination, but not for combatting economic class...

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