Born. To Brendan Behan, 40, roistering Irish boyo and playwright (The Quare Fellow), and Beatrice Behan, 37 his wife of seven years: their first child, a daughter, in whose honor Behan raised a glass of orange juice and soda announced, "This is all it's going to be from now on"; in Dublin. Name: Blanaid Oria Mairead Christina.

Born. To Lucy Douglas Cochrane Ceezee") Guest, 43, high society's reigning queen, and Winston Frederick Churchill Guest, 57, Long Island polo player, Phipps steel heir: their second child, first daughter (Guest has two grown sons from a previous marriage); in Manhattan.

Married. Prince Mohammed 24 younger brother of Jordan's King Hussein; and Ferial Farid Irshed, 19, daughter of a wealthy Jordanian landowner ma Moslem ceremony at Amman's Zahran Palace, in celebration of which Hussein ordered the release of 40 political prisoners.

Married. Iva Sergei ("Pat") Voidato-Patcevitch, 63, president of Conde Nast Publications (Vogue, Glamour) and Manhattan Socialite Cheseborough ( Chessy") Amory, 50, his companion at many a charity ball over the past two social seasons; he for the second time, she for the fourth; in Manhattan.

Divorced. By Linda Darnell, 40, fawn-eyed brunette who played the brazen heroine of Forever Amber Merle Roy Robertson, 43, her third husband, an American Airlines 707 captain; after six years of marriage, no children; on grounds of cruelty and adultery (she accused him of fathering an illegitimate child by a Yugoslav actress); in Los Angeles.

Died. Richard Alfred Mack, 54, former Federal Communications Commissioner, who was forced to resign in 1958 over a scandal involving the FCC award of Miami's Channel 10 to National Airlines (Senate investigators charged that he had taken "loans" from National's lawyer), after which his longtime alcoholism reached the point where he was unable to stand trial for fraud, lived his last years in and out of hospitals and on handouts; in Miami, where police found his body in a Skid Row room five to eight days after death, presumably of cirrhosis of the liver.

Died. Clive Staples Lewis, 64, Oxbridge don, scholar of the Renaissance, present-day Christian epistler second to none; of a heart attack; in Oxford (see RELIGION).

Died. Symon Gould, 70, founder (in 1948) and 1960 presidential candidate of the American Vegetarian Party, who militantly opposed the killing of animals for sustenance, sport or style.

("Women are meant to be childbearing, not fur-bearing"), once ticked off celebrated Vegetarian Bernard Shaw for "breaches of the vegetarian faith" because Shaw was taking liver-extract injections; of cancer; in Manhattan.

Died. Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver, 70, ardent Zionist, since 1917 leader of The Temple in Cleveland, one of the nation's largest Reformed Jewish congregations, a fifth-generation rabbi who with Rabbi Stephen Wise in 1943 organized the lobby that was instrumental in persuading Congress in 1945 to declare in favor of a Jewish national home, later presented the case for Palestinian partition before the U.N., in 1948 was pleased to see the creation of Israel itself; of a heart attack; in Cleveland.

Died. William Embry Wrather, 80, petroleum geologist, longtime (1943-56) chief of the U.S. Geological Survey, who pioneered the use of micropaleontology (the study of fossils) for finding oil with the 1918 strike at the Desdemona field in Texas, later in Washington spearheaded the wartime campaign to make the U.S. self-sufficient in vital materials that led to the discovery of substantial domestic deposits of vanadium, tungsten, manganese and other valuable ores; of a stroke; in Washington.

Died. Amelita Galli-Curci, 81, Italian-born coloratura soprano, one of the last survivors of the "golden age" of opera singers, a tiny Milanese with a flutelike voice who was a sensation at her 1908 debut in Rigoletto at Trani (a provincial Italian town where she was paid $60 a month), moved to the U.S. in 1916 to sing the great coloratura roles (Rosina, Lucia, Lakme) with both the Metropolitan and Chicago Operas earning up to $15,000 a performance while on tour, retired in the 1930s to California but continued through her many recordings to haunt opera buffs and reigning coloraturas alike; of emphysema; in La Jolla, Calif.

Died. The Rev. John LaFarge, 83 staunch Roman Catholic fighter against racial injustice, former editor in chief (1944-48) and longtime guiding light of the Jesuit weekly America, member of a distinguished New England family with a strong sense of social responsibility (Oliver La Farge, who championed the cause of the Indian, was his nephew); in Manhattan. Father La Farge became interested in the problems of the Negro when assigned in 1911 to rural Maryland, from then on waged a relentless campaign for racial equality in books and articles, stumped for a federal FEPC, helped found the 60 Catholic Interracial Councils, described it all in 1954 in a wise and delightfully understated autobiography, The Manner Is Ordinary.

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