Milestones, Mar. 11, 1974

Marriage Revealed. Umberto Agnelli, 39, tough-minded managing director of Italy's largest private industrial empire, Fiat automakers, and Princess Allegra Caracciolo, 28, occasional international jet-setter; he for the second time, she for the first; near Turin.

Died. Lucius Holsey Pitts, 58, influential black educator and civil rights leader; of a heart attack; in Augusta, Ga. As more and more black students enrolled in predominantly white universities, Pitts, the son of a tenant farmer, defended the role of traditionally black institutions. In his ten years as president of Miles College, which serves Birmingham's black community, Pitts increased the endowment tenfold, doubled the enrollment...

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