Milestones

By Kathleen Adams, Bernard Baumohl, M.M. Buechner, Tamala Edwards, Daniel Eisenberg, Tam Gray, Michele Orecklin, Aixa Pascual, Alain Sanders

SEPARATED. PATRICK EWING, 35, injury-sidelined New York Knicks power center, from Rita, his wife of 7 1/2 years; in New York City.

CONFIRMED. DAVID SATCHER, 56, head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; as Surgeon General; in Washington. Political wrangling had left the white coat of "America's family doctor" hanging empty for the past three years.

AWARDED. CASEY MARTIN, 25, disabled pro golfer; the right to use a golf cart during tourney play; in Eugene, Ore. Golfers argued that their strolls between holes made golf an endurance sport and that Martin's use of a cart, compensation for a circulatory disorder, was an unfair advantage. Martin is the first professional athlete to sue successfully under the Americans with Disabilities Act.

DIED. PATRICK CLARK, 42, pioneer of all sorts: first as a chef whose embrace of French cooking in the 1980s left patrons and rivals sighing, "Merveilleux!"; then as a parent of 1990s American nouvelle cuisine boom; and, as head chef at such to-die-for spots as Odeon and Cafe Luxembourg, one of the first blacks donning the top toque; of a heart attack; in Princeton, N.J.

DIED. ENOCH POWELL, 85, Conservative former member of England's Parliament and classics professor who made his name and killed his career with his infamous 1968 racist "rivers of blood" speech opposing nonwhite immigration; in London. The explosive speech put race on the map of British politics, but it also led to Powell's fall from his party's inner sanctum to its back benches. He never forsook his views, asking in 1995, "What's wrong with racism?"

DIED. WILLIAM LAMBERT, 78, Pulitzer-prizewinning forebear of modern-day investigative journalists whose 1969 LIFE expose of Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas (he accepted $20,000 from a stock swindler) led to the jurist's resignation nine days later; in Bryn Mawr, Pa.

DIED. HALLDOR LAXNESS, 95, Iceland's most famous man of letters and 1955 Nobel prizewinner; in Reykjavik.