Milestones

By Melissa August, Elizabeth L. Bland, Sean Gregory, Janice M. Horowitz, Benjamin Nugent and Rebecca Winters

DIED. JOHNNY UNITAS, 69, Hall of Fame quarterback who led the Baltimore Colts to a sudden-death victory over the New York Giants in the 1958 NFL championship game, still regarded by many as the greatest football game ever played; of a heart attack; in suburban Baltimore. Unitas broke passing records at the University of Louisville but was deemed too small by his hometown Pittsburgh Steelers, who cut him in 1955. The Colts found him playing for $6 a game in a semipro league and signed him to be their third-stringer. Two years later, his precise passes and menacing game face rallied the Colts past the Giants in a match that helped spark new popularity for the NFL. His icy confidence inspired teammate John Mackey to remark at the time, "It's like being in a huddle with God." When Unitas retired in 1973, he was the first quarterback to reach 40,000 yards for a career. His 47 consecutive games with a touchdown pass are still a league record.

HEARING SOUGHT. By Florida prosecutors against Governor Jeb Bush's daughter NOELLE BUSH, 25, for possession of crack at the drug-rehabilitation center where she was sent in February; in Orlando. Her treatment was ordered after she sought to obtain a prescription drug fraudulently.

SEPARATED. NEIL BUSH, 46, brother of President George W. Bush, after 22 years of marriage to his wife Sharon, 50. The couple have three children.

CHARGED. DENNIS KOZLOWSKI, 55, former chief executive of Tyco International, and MARK SWARTZ, 42, the company's former chief financial officer, with enterprise corruption, a charge often used in Mafia prosecutions, and grand larceny, for allegedly looting $600 million of company money to buy everything from Park Avenue apartments to Harry Winston jewels; in New York City.

DIED. CLIFF GORMAN, 65, explosive television, screen and stage actor who won a Tony for his bitterly funny portrayal of the stand-up comic Lenny Bruce in Broadway's Lenny (1971); of leukemia; in New York City. He first gained fame for his flamboyantly gay performance in the 1968 play The Boys in the Band.

DIED. UZI GAL, 79, Israeli inventor of the Uzi submachine gun; in Philadelphia. He let his name be used for the gun only after the manufacturer insisted; Uzi is the abbreviation for the Hebrew phrase "God is my might."

DIED. KIM HUNTER, 79, actress best remembered for her visceral, sexually charged Oscar-winning portrayal of Stella in the movie version of A Streetcar Named Desire, a role she originated on Broadway with Marlon Brando; in New York City. Blacklisted in the 1950s, Hunter did not see her film career take off again until she donned a monkey suit to play a chimpanzee in Planet of the Apes (1968). "The only thing of me that came through was my eyeballs," she said. Still, she repeated the role in two sequels.

DIED. WILLIAM PHILLIPS, 94, co-founder and editor of the Partisan Review, the influential literary and political journal that published such writers as Lionel Trilling and Mary McCarthy; in New York City.