Milestones: Apr. 21, 1961

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Born. To Richard ("Pancho") Gonzales, 32, durable old pro of Jack Kramer's play-for-pay tennis troupe, and Madelyn Darrow, 25, Miss Rheingold of 1958: twin girls, their first children (Pancho has three by a previous marriage); in Los Angeles.

Married. Martyn Green, 61, ebullient British-born Gilbert and Sullivan star who lost his left leg in an agonizing penknife amputation after it became wedged in an elevator shaft in 1959, but returned to the stage with an artificial limb and danced a jig in Knights of Song; and Yvonne Chauveau, 39, a model; he for the third time, she for the second; in Rowayton, Conn.

Died. Si M'Barek ben Mustapha el Bekkai, 54, first Premier of independent Morocco (1956-58), who fought for France in World War II as a lieutenant colonel of cavalry, losing a leg in the Ardennes, later fought against France in the struggle to end foreign rule in his country; of a heart attack; in Rabat.

Died. Rear Admiral Giles Chester Stedman, USNR, 63, vice president of the United States Lines and former superintendent of the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, a skilled skipper famed for his rescues at sea and for evacuating 1,400 people from Singapore aboard the refitted luxury liner America in 1942 while under Japanese bomber attack; of a stroke; in London. His oddest lifesaving exploit occurred off Ireland in 1939, when a Nazi U-boat torpedoed the British freighter Olive Grove only after waiting for her 33-man crew to escape in rowboats, then fired rockets to summon Stedman's liner, the Washington, to the rescue.

Died. Ahmed Bey Zogu, 65, former King Zog I of Albania, who helped his Balkan land shake off Turkish despotism only to see it taken over, first by Italy, then by the Soviet Union; of stomach ulcers and a liver ailment; in Paris. "My life is an adventure story," said Zog, a mountain chieftain who rose from Premier to President to King, reigned for eleven years before Mussolini's troops chased him into lifelong exile in 1939. Zog, whose notorious chain-smoking (150 cigarettes a day) came as close to killing him as four assassination attempts, spent his last days in a sparsely furnished French Riviera villa where his Hungarian-American Queen, Geraldine, 44, a countess who once sold postcards in Budapest, supported him by writing mystery stories.

Died. Guy Goldthorp Butler, 74, an Iowa politician who was known as "the shirtsleeve senator" of the state's upper house, where coat and tie is the rule, once a practicing dentist whose five-year career as tooth puller to the royal household of King Rama VI of Siam ended in 1921 when an auto accident injured his arm; of a heart attack; in Des Moines.