Milestones

BORN. To Field Marshal Idi ("Big Daddy") Amin, 49, Uganda's belligerent, capricious President, and Madina Amin, 26, the senior of his current wives: twin boys, her third and fourth children, his 33rd and 34th; in Kampala, Uganda.

BORN. To Michael DeBakey, 68, pioneer heart surgeon and president of the Baylor University College of Medicine, and Katrin DeBakey, 35, former actress from Hamburg, Germany; their first child, a girl; in Houston. Name: Olga-Katarina.

DIED. Francis Gary Powers, 47, airman-turned-spy who parachuted into history in 1960 when the U-2 he piloted on a CIA mission was shot down inside the Soviet Union; in a helicopter crash while on a reporting assignment for KNBC-TV, Los Angeles; in Encino, Calif. His capture, along with that of his photographic and electronic surveillance equipment, caused Nikita Khrushchev to cancel a summit conference with President Eisenhower. Tried publicly in Moscow, Powers was sentenced to ten years imprisonment for espionage, then released in 1962 in exchange for Soviet spy Rudolf Abel.

DIED. Archbishop Makarios III, 63, President of Cyprus since it became independent in 1960; of a heart attack; in Nicosia, Cyprus (see THE WORLD).

DIED. Alfred Lunt, 84, celebrated actor and director who with his wife Lynn Fontanne reigned over Broadway for nearly four decades; of cancer; in Chicago. The Lunts, who began acting together on Broadway soon after they were married in 1922, co-starred in more than two dozen plays (The Guardsman, Reunion in Vienna, There Shall Be No Night, The Visit), some of which Lunt also directed. Creating a chemistry of opposites, he tall and temperamental, she lithe and blithe, theater's royal couple delighted playgoers with their consummate craftsmanship and their sophisticated badinage both onstage and off. Though for many years the Lunts had been living a simple life at their 100-acre country estate in Genesee Depot, Wis., Broadway marquees were darkened for a minute in Lunt's honor last week. Miss Fontanne once said, "I can't imagine going on without him."

DIED. Ernst Bloch, 92, unorthodox Marxist philosopher with a sizable following among student radicals; of a heart attack; in Tubingen, West Germany. His master work, Das Prinzip Hoffnung (The Principle of Hope), completed during his prewar years in the U.S., laid the groundwork for Theologian Jurgen Moltmann's "philosophy of hope." Bloch later taught at the University of Leipzig, East Germany, before defecting to the West in 1961 because he was "no longer willing to expose my work or myself to undignified conditions."

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