Milestones

DIED

Dick Kazmaier, 82, the Princeton halfback who won the Heisman Trophy in 1951–the last time an Ivy League player has done so–but chose a lucrative business career over pro football.

DIED

Julius Chambers, 76, prominent civil rights lawyer for the NAACP. He was best known for arguing the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case that authorized school integration through busing.

DIED

Michael Morwood, 62, archaeologist who led a team in 2003 that unearthed the remains of an 18,000-year-old, previously unknown species of “new human.”

DIED

Michael Ansara, 91, actor best known for playing Klingon leader Kang in the original Star Trek, before reprising his role in Deep Space Nine and Voyager.

CANCELED

A summit scheduled for September between Vladimir Putin and Barack Obama in the wake of rising tensions over Syria, human-rights issues and the Edward Snowden affair.

DIED

John Palmer, 77, NBC correspondent and anchor who in 1980 broke the news that the Carter Administration had failed to rescue American hostages in Iran.