MILESTONES

DIED. MARIA LUISA BEMBERG, 73, Latin America's foremost female film director; of stomach cancer; in Buenos Aires. Bemberg came to cinema relatively late in life, directing her first film at the age of 59. Typical of her feminist oeuvre was the Oscar-nominated Camila (1984), a melodrama of an aristocratic young woman who seeks romantic happiness with a Catholic priest.

DIED. ED LANGE, 75, photographer-nudist; in Los Angeles. Lange regularly contributed to the pages of Vogue and Life, but his true passion was the "clothing-optional" movement. He began publishing pronudist screeds in 1961 and in 1967 opened the Elysium Institute in L.A.'s laid-back Topanga Canyon. Daring in its day, the in-the-raw retreat is now such a community fixture that Lange was named citizen of the year by the local chamber of commerce.

DIED. TERESA TENG, 43, Taiwanese pop singer; after suffering an asthma attack in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Though Beijing banned her Mandarin love songs as "spiritual pollution" in the 1980s, fans snatched up recordings smuggled in through Hong Kong; it was said that "Little Teng" was more popular than "Old Deng" Xiaoping.

DIED. RAY MCKINLEY, 84, drummer, singer, and pop-orchestra maestro whose crossbreeding of boogie-woogie with Big Band gave birth to a string of hits, including the memorable musical command Beat Me Daddy, Eight to the Bar; in Largo, Florida.

DIED. EVELYN NORTON LINCOLN, 85, personal secretary to John Kennedy; in Washington. Lincoln devoted herself to the future President from his early days in Congress to his last day in Dallas (where she rode in the fatal motorcade); she would continue to visit his grave on each anniversary of his death. Her memoirs, My Twelve Years with John F. Kennedy and Kennedy and Johnson, were best sellers.