Born. To Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller, 58, Governor of New York, and Margaretta Filler Murphy Rockefeller, 40: their second son (his seventh child, her sixth); in Manhattan. Name: Mark Filler.

Presumed Dead. Audrey Bruce Currier, 33, daughter of U.S. Ambassador to Britain David K. E. Bruce and granddaughter of Banker-Industrialist Andrew Mellon, who inherited a major share of the family fortune, wasted none of it on the jet-set scene, prefer- ring to live quietly and, with her husband Stephen Currier, 36, search out philanthropic causes for their Taconic Foundation, which last year distributed $2,400,000; lost with her husband on Jan. 17 when their chartered plane went down somewhere between Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.

Died. Lieut. Colonel Virgil I. ("Gus") Grissom, 40, Lieut. Colonel Edward H. White, 36, and Lieut. Commander Roger B. Chaffee, 31; in an explosion while testing their Apollo spacecraft; at Cape Kennedy, Fla. (see THE NATION).

Died. Charles A. Buckley, 76, one of the last oldtime big-city bosses, Bronx County, N.Y., Democratic leader for 13 years and 15-term U.S. Congressman who was one of the first to jump aboard the Kennedy bandwagon when he pressured New York delegates into supporting J.F.K.'s nomination for President at the 1960 convention, later backed Bobby for U.S. Senator, but lost his own congressional seat to a Reform Democrat in 1964 and spent his last years petulantly flailing away at the "amateurs," "stiffs" and "Johnny-come-late-lies" who were wresting party control from him; of lung cancer; in the Bronx.

Died. Marshal Alphonse-Pierre Juin, 76, France's highest-ranking soldier, an acid-tongued officer who was honored for his leadership (commander of French troops in Italy in World War II) but not for his obedience, being constantly at war with authority, whether it was his civilian superiors at the War Ministry or his old St. Cyr classmate Charles de Gaulle, with whom he disagreed on Algeria so bitterly and so often that De Gaulle forced his retirement in 1962; of uremia; in Paris.

Died. Lee Simonson, 78, theatrical-set designer, who pioneered a new kind of functional set design, which by substituting style and simplicity for useless clutter and opulence sought to frame the mood of a play without smothering it, thereby enhancing hundreds of productions (Liliom, Idiot's Delight), mostly for the Theatre Guild, of which he was a founder in 1919; of a heart attack; in Yonkers, New York.

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