Engaged. Robert J. Dole, 52, witty Republican Senator from Kansas and onetime chairman of the Republican National Committee; and Mary Elizabeth Hanford, 38, sole woman member of the Federal Trade Commission. Hanford's striking good looks and Harvard law degree once prompted White House Consumer Affairs Adviser Virginia Knauer to describe her as an example of deceptive packaging. Dole, who narrowly won re-election in 1974, convinced voters that he had been unfairly besmirched by Watergate: he appeared in TV ads with mud on his face.

Died. Clinton P. Anderson, 80, Secretary of Agriculture under President Harry Truman and a leading liberal Democrat in the U.S. Senate for nearly a quarter of a century; following a stroke; in Albuquerque. A former newspaper reporter and founder of an insurance company, Anderson was serving his third term as a Congressman from New Mexico when Truman, impressed by his detailed report on U.S. food shortages, offered him the Cabinet post; three years later, Anderson quit to make a successful run for the Senate. A member of the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy from 1951 to 1973, Anderson was a major influence on the development of nuclear power; as head of the Senate Aeronautical and Space Sciences Committee from 1963 until his retirement in 1973, he helped shape the Apollo space program and was awarded the Goddard Memorial Trophy for his contributions to the nation's astronautic effort. Among his many legislative achievements are the Wilderness Act of 1964, which put more than 9 million acres of wilderness under federal protection, and Medicare, which he co-sponsored in 1965 with California Representative Cecil King.

Died. William Bennett Kouwenhoven, 89, innovative electrical and bio-medical engineer who developed lifesaving heart resuscitation techniques; in Baltimore. Kouwenhoven, who served more than 60 years on the Johns Hopkins faculty, discovered in the 1930s that a brief jolt of electricity applied to a fibrillating heart muscle could restore the organ to a steady pace. While working on a portable defibrillator for use without surgery, Kouwenhoven also found that a stopped heart could often be restarted by brisk, repeated pressure on the breastbone. External cardiac massage has since been used by laymen and physicians to save countless lives.

Died. Lieut. General Julian Constable Smith, 90, durable Marine commander; in Arlington, Va. Smith fought his country's battles from the occupation of Veracruz in 1914 through World War II. He led the corps' 2nd Division in the bloody conquest of Tarawa in 1943 against suicidal Japanese resistance, coming ashore under fire at the height of the fighting because "it was my job to be on the beach. The men of my division had been through hell and they were entitled to the presence of their commanding officer."

Died. Hugh Auchincloss Brown, 96, engineer who believed that vast polar icecaps would wipe out civilization in this century; in New York City. Brown, author of Cataclysms of the Earth (1967), predicted that the accumulation of ice at the Antarctic would upset the planet's equilibrium and cause it to flip, reversing the North and South Poles. If the catastrophe comes to pass, New York, according to Brown, will be buried under 13 miles of water.

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