Milestones

By Daniel Eisenberg, Jodie Morse, Michele Orecklin, Alain L. Sanders, Susan Veitch and Deborah L. Wells

SENTENCED. THEODORE KACZYNSKI, 55, confessed Unabomber; to four consecutive life sentences plus 30 years in prison; in Sacramento, Calif.

KILLED. ALOIS ESTERMANN, 43, commander of the Pope's Swiss Guards; and his wife Gladys Meza Romero, 49; shot by disgruntled Swiss Guard Cedric Tornay, 23, who then shot himself; in the first murders on Vatican land in 150 years.

DIED. EDDIE RABBITT, 56, rangy country singer who, despite all his down-homey hits--among them I Love a Rainy Night and Drivin' My Life Away--was the Brooklyn-born son of Irish immigrants; after battling lung cancer; in Nashville, Tenn.

DIED. CHARLES ("Bebe") REBOZO, 85, Florida banker and controversial confidant of Richard Nixon; in Miami. Rebozo, who lent Nixon money to buy his San Clemente, Calif., home, also accepted $100,000 in cash in 1970 from Howard Hughes for a private campaign fund for Nixon. He said he returned the money, and no charges were filed.

DIED. ALICE FAYE, 86, one of Hollywood's biggest late '30s and early '40s movie box-office draws; in Rancho Mirage, Calif. Faye starred in Tinseltown's popular and lucrative cookie-cutter musicals and, with her distinctive contralto, introduced several songs that became pop standards, notably You'll Never Know in Hello, Frisco, Hello (1943). She was one of Irving Berlin's favorite singers. In 1945 she left her film career after Betty Grable supplanted her as Hollywood's favorite musical-comedy actress.

DIED. J. GORDON LIPPINCOTT, 89, avatar of corporate-logo design; in North Haven, Conn. An engineer by training, his firm's handiwork paired the spoon with Betty Crocker, a winged Mercury with FTD florists and Campbell's soup with its venerable red-and-white can.

DIED. OTTO BETTMANN, 94, excavator extraordinaire of the photographic past who obsessively amassed some 5 million images in the archive that bore his name; in Boca Raton, Fla. A curator of rare books, Bettmann fled to New York from Nazi Germany, carrying with him two steamer trunks filled with thousands of rolls of exposed 35-mm film, the seeds of his fabled collection. The Bettmann Archive has belonged to Microsoft chairman Bill Gates since 1995.