Milestones: Mar. 30, 1981

DIVORCED. Carl Sagan, 46, astronomer, author and star of the PBS TV series Cosmos; and Artist Linda Sagan, 38; after twelve years of marriage, one son; in Los Angeles. Sagan, who separated from Linda 3½ years ago, plans to marry Novelist Ann Druyan in June.

DIED. Peter H. Dominick, 65, Colorado Republican who spent two years in the U.S. House of Representatives and twelve years in the Senate and who served in 1975 as the U.S. Ambassador to Switzerland; of a heart attack; in Hobe Sound, Fla. A staunch conservative and anti-Communist who was proud of his efforts to preserve the American...

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