Milestones: Aug. 8, 1969

Born. To Eldridge Cleaver, 34, Black Panther leader who jumped bail -and fled to Cuba nine months ago following a shoot-out between Panthers and police in Oakland, Calif., and Kathleen Cleaver, 24, the Panthers' communications secretary: their first child, a son; in Algiers.

Married. Carolyn Ann Glenn, 22, daughter of Colonel John Glenn Jr., first American in orbit, a senior at Stanford University; and John Michael Power, 26, a Stanford graduate student; in Palo Alto, Calif.

Married. Robert Taft Jr., 52, grandson of former President William Howard Taft, son of the late Senator Robert A....

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