Milestones: Jun. 21, 1982

MARRIED. William Agee, 44, chairman of Bendix Corp.; and Mary Cunningham, 30, vice president of Joseph E. Seagram & Sons and former vice president of Bendix, who quit that post after rumors credited her promotion to a romance with Agee; both for the second time; in San Francisco. Agee recently converted to Roman Catholicism, and Cunningham won an annulment of her first marriage.

DIED. Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 36, prolific, iconoclastic Wunderkind of the new German cinema, who gained international recognition with his 1978 The Marriage of Maria Braun; of undetermined causes (though an overdose of drugs and alcohol is suspected); in Munich....

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