Died. Phillip J. Lucier, 49, president of Continental Telephone Corp., a onetime electronics salesman who founded the firm in 1961, built it into the third biggest independent telephone utility with 1.5 million outlets in 42 states, Canada and five Caribbean countries, assets of $1 billion; when a bomb exploded in his car as he started back to the office after lunch; in suburban St. Louis.

Died. Jim G. Lucas, 56, renowned war correspondent for Scripps-Howard newspapers; of abdominal cancer; in Washington, D.C. Why always a war? someone once asked Lucas, and he replied: "It is one of the few circumstances in life I have found where the majority of people I deal with are selfless." Untiringly he accompanied servicemen through eight World War II Pacific landings, 26 months in Korea, 18 months with the French in Indochina, and then Viet Nam. Though he was known for his terse, highly personal accounts, his most memorable piece was a 1954 off-the-record interview with Douglas MacArthur, printed in 1964 after the general's death, in which MacArthur bitterly outlined his rejected plan for winning the Korean War with nuclear bombs and Nationalist Chinese troops.

Died. Iain Macleod, 56, Britain's recently appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer (see THE WORLD).

Died. Barry Wood, 61, radio crooner on the 1940s Hit Parade who turned to TV producing; of a heart attack; in Miami Beach. Wood's credits range from the Kate Smith Show to the Bell Telephone Hour, but he is best remembered for NBC's Wide, Wide World, which from 1955 to 1958 celebrated the wonders of the continent from the Grand Canyon to the Florida Keys.

Died. Use Stanley, 64, German actress and heroine for her rescues of Jews from Hitler's concentration camps; of carcinomatosis; in Boston. Daughter of a Berlin rabbi, she was forced from the stage by the Nazis in 1933; for the next six years, until her own escape from Germany, played a role in the underground: armed with forged papers, she entered the Gestapo's death camps on 62 occasions and drove off with 412 inmates marked for extermination.

Died. Panayotis Pipinelis, 71, Foreign Minister of Greece, one of the few professional politicians to serve the ruling military junta; of a heart attack; in Athens. A longtime supporter of King Constantine, Pipinelis nevertheless stayed on to assist the inexperienced colonels in their efforts to avert war with Turkey over Cyprus in 1967. Fellow royalists regarded him as a traitor, but he persisted in his attempts to moderate the oppressive regime.

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