Milestones, Nov. 12, 1979

DIVORCED. Pyrotechnic Rock Star Mick Jagger, 35, leader of the Rolling Stones; and Bianca Jagger, 34, Nicaragua-born actress and disco habitue; after eight years of marriage, one daughter; in London. After 18 months of transatlantic legal fireworks and a failed attempt to move the case to Los Angeles, jet-setting Bianca was granted a divorce in 18 minutes on uncontested grounds of adultery.

DIED. Robert Boulin, 59, French Minister of Labor recently implicated by the press in a 1974 real estate scandal; after swallowing an overdose of barbiturates and drowning in a pond in the...

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