Engaged. Glenn Ford, 61, perdurable, softspoken, intense Hollywood leading man, and Actress Cynthia Hayward, 30, his three-year flame. The pear-shaped diamond that the twice-married Ford earlier bestowed upon his bride-to-be was rumored to have cost more than the actor's $400,000 Beverly Hills house. Said Ford at the time: "I gave my lady a ring. A gentleman doesn't discuss how much things cost."

Married. Brenda Vaccaro, 36, throaty-voiced star of Broadway (Cactus Flower), film (Midnight Cowboy's kinky "fur coat lady"; Golden Globe Award for Once Is Not Enough) and television; and William Spenser Bishop, 35, a Sun Valley, Idaho, attorney; she for the second time, he for the first; in Dallas.

Died. Eliot F. Noyes, 66, tastemaking industrial designer, architect, artist and wholesale shaper of corporate images and buildings (IBM world's fair pavilions, Mobil's cylindrical gas pumps), whose abiding reverence was for pure functionalism and uncluttered, recognizable packaging ("Familiarity breeds acceptance," he once quipped); of a heart attack; in New Canaan, Conn.

Died. Count Carl Gustaf von Rosen, 67, swashbuckling, humanitarian Swedish aristocrat; of gunshot wounds suffered during a surprise guerrilla attack; in Gode, Ethiopia. Von Rosen's daredevil "mercy" missions, which eventually spanned four decades and four wars, first brought him hero status during the 1936 Italian invasion of Ethiopia. The count once declared: "I was born in a castle, the son of a millionaire, and they tried to bring me up as a noble gentleman. But I was always naughty, always in trouble."

Died. John Robert Powers, 84, an aspiring actor who in 1923 founded the world's first modeling agency, laying the groundwork for what has become a billion-dollar industry; after a lengthy illness; in Glendale, Calif. He made millions from a stable of beauties that included such future stars as Barbara Stanwyck and Lauren Bacall.

Died. Katharine Sergeant White, 84, the sensitive and self-confident first fiction editor of The New Yorker. She brought a fine literary taste and a liberal pay rate for short stories to the publication, helping transform it from an unassuming satirical weekly into a first-run showcase for many of America's leading authors. Among them: John Cheever, John O'Hara, John Updike, Vladimir Nabokov and Mary McCarthy. She married a New Yorker writer--though he turned out to be a master of nonfiction--named E.B. White.

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