Milestones: Aug. 6, 1984

DIED. Charles H. Wilson, 67, little-known nine-term Democratic Congressman from California (1963-80) until he was first reprimanded by the House of Representatives in 1978 for his part in the Koreagate scandal, then censured in 1980 for other ethics violations, the only member of Congress ever so doubly and dubiously distinguished; of a heart attack; in Clinton, Md.

DIED. James Mason, 75, suave Svengali of British and Hollywood films for a half-century; of a heart attack; in Lausanne, Switzerland. Mason took a Cambridge architecture degree but was soon displaying his haunted good looks and...

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