MILESTONES: Milestones, Jun. 22, 1959

Born. To Nelly Rivas, 20, Lolita-like friend at 14 of fading Argentine Dictator Juan Peron, and Carlos José Ramil, 25, a U.S. Embassy accountant in Argentina: their first child, a son; in Buenos Aires. Name: Carlos Joseé Jr. Weight: 7 Ibs. 5 oz.

Married. Sahle Selassie, 28, youngest of three sons of Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia; and Mahtsente Habte Mariam, 22; in Addis Ababa.

Died. Tshekedi Khama, 53, tough, durable chief (1926-50) of the Bamangwato tribe in the British Protectorate of Bechuanaland, who imposed education, modern sanitation and agriculture on his impassive, faction-torn tribe, fought off encroachments of the adjoining, racist Union of South Africa; of a liver ailment; in London. Impetuous Tshekedi was exiled twice: once (1933) for ordering a white man flogged who had abused a native woman (when the field gun of a punitive force sent to depose him bogged down in the mud, Tshekedi sent a team of oxen to haul it out); later (1950) for stormily objecting to the celebrated marriage of his nephew Seretse Khama to Ruth Williams, a blonde Englishwoman, when Britain feared that any provocation would prompt Daniel Malan’s Union of South Africa to seize Bechuanaland. Sprung from London exile, Tshekedi returned (1956) to Bechuanaland, helped set up a voting council to replace the autocratic chief he had so long exemplified.

Died. James J. Maloney, 63, longtime (1931-51) U.S. Secret Service agent, and briefly chief (1947-48), who was kicked upstairs to U.S. Treasury law enforcement coordinator after prematurely preparing a Secret Service guard for unsuccessful Presidential Candidate Thomas E. Dewey on election eve in 1948; of bronchial pneumonia; in St. Petersburg, Fla.

Died. Dr. Grantly Dick Read. 69, champion of natural childbirth, who argued that labor pains are largely caused by fear, reported (No Time for Fear) from a trip to Africa that 95% of the unafraid primitive women he examined had painless deliveries; in Wroxham, England.

Died. Adolf Windaus, 82, Berlin-born chemist who won the 1928 Nobel Prize for converting the substance ergosterol to antirachitic vitamin D, was the first to crystallize a vitamin (D in 1931), contributed valuable research to the use of sex hormones and digitalis; of a heart attack; in Göttingen, Germany.

Died. Pietro Canonica. 90, Italian sculptor who concentrated on heads of state (Russia’s Alexander II, Turkey’s Kemal Pasha) and churchmen (Benedict XV, Pius XI, St. John Bosco), fashioned the new bronze doors for Allied-bombed Monte Cassino Abbey, picturing U.S. and British air forces alongside Goths and Huns as the abbey’s destroyers, composed operas (Miranda, Bride of Corinth); in Rome.

Died. Charles Gulp Burlingham, 100, New York lawyer, civic reformer for half a century who urged pacemaking social legislation (childlabor, minimum-wage laws), headed a group of public-spirited New Yorkers (Fusionists) who successfully backed anti-Tammany Mayoralty Candidates John Purroy Mitchel (1913) and Fiorello La Guardia (1933), though a Democrat crossed party lines to support Tom Dewey for New York attorney general, denounce F.D.R.’s 1937 Supreme Court-packing bill, promoted the careers of some of the leading jurists of his time (Benjamin Cardozo. Learned Hand) in an unflagging effort to improve the quality of the courts, maintained for a full century his reasoning and the wit that leavened his zeal; in Manhattan.