Milestones: May 28, 1984

ARRESTED. David Dorr, 30, and Peter Marchant, 24, former bellhops at the Brazilian Court Hotel in Palm Beach, Fla.; for conspiracy to sell cocaine and for selling the drug to the late David Kennedy; in Barnstable, Mass., and Warwick, R.I. Dorr, a Cape Cod resident, and Marchant, a Rhode Island native, face a maximum penalty of 20 years imprisonment and a $15,000 fine for both charges. On the day of the arrest, Palm Beach officials announced that Kennedy, 28, son of the late Senator Robert Kennedy, had died after "multiple ingestion of cocaine,...

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