Milestones

By Kathleen Adams, Daniel Eisenberg, Tam Gray, Anita Hamilton, Jodie Morse, Michele Orecklin, Alain Sanders

EXPECTING. MARY KAYE LETOURNEAU, 36, schoolteacher who last month was ordered to serve her suspended 7 1/2 year child-rape sentence for meeting the 14-year old student with whom she has a nine-month old daughter. She may face new charges if the boy is again the father.

SEEKING DIVORCE. ROMA DOWNEY, 34, haloed heroine of Touched by an Angel; from director DAVID ANSPAUGH, 51.

RETIRING. JOSEPH P. KENNEDY II, 45, six-term Massachusetts Congressman and eldest son of Robert F. Kennedy; from politics. He plans to run the nonprofit Citizens Energy Corp. that his brother Michael oversaw until his death.

INJURED. PICABO STREET, 26, dogged downhiller who rebounded from a career-threatening knee injury to win a gold medal at the Nagano Olympics; in Crans Montana, Switzerland. Street, who won a silver medal in the '94 Olympics, broke her leg in this season's final downhill.

DIED. JAMES MCDOUGAL, 57, eccentric Arkansas banker and former friend of Bill and Hillary's, who snitched on his business dealings with the Clintons and sparked the ongoing Whitewater investigation; of cardiac arrest; in Fort Worth, Texas, where he was in prison (see Eulogy below).

DIED. RAY NITSCHKE, 61, rock-solid middle linebacker for the Green Bay Packers who anchored the defense of the Lombardi-era championship teams; of a heart attack; in Venice, Fla.

DIED. ARKADY SHEVCHENKO, 67, Soviet apparatchik turned spook who boldly defected to the U.S. in 1978, when he was Under Secretary-General of the United Nations, and later told all about the Kremlin in the best-selling memoir Breaking with Moscow; of an apparent heart attack; in Bethesda, Md. One of Shevchenko's CIA debriefers was agent Aldrich Ames, the Soviet mole who later sold secrets to Moscow.

DIED. LEONIE RYSANEK, 71, show-stopping Austrian soprano whose soaring arias so entranced fans she once kept them standing--and clapping--throughout the entire intermission of a Wagner opera; of bone cancer; in Vienna.

DIED. LLOYD BRIDGES, 85, protean actor and patriarch of an acting dynasty, whose myriad roles ranged from the dramatic (High Noon) to the slapstick (Airplane!) and, most famously, to the adventurous (Sea Hunt); in Los Angeles. As former Navy frogman and underwater gumshoe Mike Nelson in the 1950s television series, Bridges popularized skin diving, though he felt artistically hemmed in by his watery role and once mused, "If we could just get some way to do Hamlet underwater, I'd be happy." In later life he presided over the careers of sons Beau and Jeff, who got their start acting alongside Dad in Sea Hunt.

DIED. BEATRICE WOOD, 105, ceramist and bon vivant, whose affairs with early 20th century artists and writers earned her the name "Mama of Dada"; near Ojai, Calif. Wood, who credited her longevity to "chocolate and young men," also inspired the character of Rose in the film Titanic.