Milestones: Jan. 25, 1963

Married. Valery Brumel, 20, Russia's world record holder in the high jump (7 ft. 5¼ in.); and Marina Larionova, 20, blonde gymnast with the title of Master of Sport; in Moscow.

Divorced. By Francis Gary Powers, 33, U-2 pilot downed over Russia in May 1960: Barbara Powers, 28; on grounds of cruelty and habitual drunkenness; after seven years of marriage, no children; in Milledgeville, Ga.

Died. Wolfgang Döring, 43, No. 2 man in West Germany's Free Democratic Party, a pugnacious politician whose drumfire attacks on the government for repression of Der Spiegel magazine caused...

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