Milestones: Jun. 1, 1962

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Married. Jamila, 18, second daughter of Pakistan's ramrod President Mohammed Ayub Khan; and Prince Amir Zaib, 24, second son of the Wali of Swat; in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Ayub's eldest daughter, Naseem, is married to the Wali's first son, the Waliad Aurangzeb, heir apparent to Pakistan's princely state of Swat.

Died. Tin Maung ("Tinny") Thant, 21, only son of U.N. Secretary-General U Thant, a onetime sociology student at Manhattan's Hunter College; of brain injuries after falling off a swerving bus; in Rangoon, Burma.

Died. William Curtis Bok, 64, longtime Pennsylvania jurist elected to a 21-year term on the state Supreme Court in 1958, a liberal, civic-minded Quaker who, as a scion of the Curtis and Bok publishing dynasty, was considered something of a renegade by his Main Line neighbors because of his New Deal politics; after a long illness; in Philadelphia's suburban Radnor. By his death, Bok, as one of five Curtis trustees, held up the possibility (strongly rumored, but unconfirmed) that Doubleday & Co. was about to buy into the Philadelphia-based magazine empire, in the red last year for the first time.

Died. The Right Rev. Eric Knightley Chetwode Hamilton, 71, Dean of Windsor since 1944 and as such, chaplain to the first laymen of the Anglican Church, the late King George VI and Queen Elizabeth II; of a heart attack; in Windsor, England.

Died. Gabriele Münter, 85, eminent German expressionist painter and one of the key founders of the fabled Blue Rider group of modern artists (Wassily Kandinsky, Franz Marc, Paul Klee), a mournful, gentle Berliner who was Abstractionist Kandinsky's longtime mistress and just last year received her first U.S. one-woman show; after a long illness; in Murnau, Germany. Kandisnky jilted her during World War I, but left her 120 oils and countless graphics (valued at more than $500,000), which the scorned Gabriele left unwrapped for 43 years until 1957 when, without so much as a glance, she gave the vast art treasure to the city of Munich.

Died. Henry Myron Blackmer, 92, elusive Teapot Dome swindler, an oil-rich dandy nicknamed ''Darling of the Gods" for his lavish sprees during the West's reckless frontier era; in Geneva, Switzerland. Blackmer fled to France in 1924 to avoid questioning in the Harding Administration oil scandal and fought off all U.S. extradition efforts, but after 25 years in self-exile, by then a half-blind octogenarian without a country, he paid up $4,000,000 in back taxes, returned to face federal trial, where he was fined another $20,000 for income-tax evasion and then quietly returned to Europe.