ILL. Barry Goldwater, 72, Arizona's grand old conservative Republican Senator; with degenerative arthritis in the left hip; in Phoenix. He will undergo surgery to replace the hip with a metal ball and plastic socket. Goldwater, who limped painfully around the Senate during the AW ACS debate, will be out for six weeks.

DIED. Max Scherr, 65, rotund, disorderly founder of the underground newspaper the Berkeley Barb; of cancer; in Berkeley, Calif. Founded in 1965 during the Free Speech Movement at Berkeley, the Barb proselytized for revolution, drugs and "free" sex, peaking at 90,000 readers in 1969, before closing in 1980. Scherr made the paper profitable not only by anticipating the sentiments of the "flower children" but also by paying low wages and raking in revenue from sexually explicit ads purchased by massage parlors.

DIED. Jonathan Daniels, 79, longtime editor of The News and Observer of Raleigh, eloquent voice of Southern moderation, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt's last press secretary; on Hilton Head Island, S.C. Daniels succeeded his father Josephus as editor of the family-owned newspaper in 1933. In 1942, he joined Roosevelt's Administration, becoming press secretary shortly before Roosevelt died in 1945. He returned to the Observer, shirking administrative duties but excelling as an editorial writer who advocated a non-confrontational approach to integrating the South during the 1950s and 1960s. Daniels also wrote more than a dozen books, including two that were the first in-depth accounts of F.D.R.'s romance with Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd.

DIED. Samuel Rosen, 84, world-renowned ear surgeon who developed a revolutionary operation for curing otosclerosis, a common cause of deafness; of a blood clot; in Peking. He discovered the technique during an operation in 1952 when he accidentally jarred loose a tiny bone in the middle ear, immediately restoring the patient's hearing. After perfecting the procedure on hundreds of cadavers, he taught the operation all over the world, becoming a frequent visitor to China in the process.

DIED. Robert de Graff, 86, innovative co-founder of Pocket Books who revolutionized American publishing when he successfully marketed the first paperbacks in the U.S.; in Mill Neck, N.Y. In 1939, De Graff set out to distribute pocket-size, glossy-covered 25-c- paperbacks, using magazine-marketing techniques to sell them at newsstands and in grocery and drugstore chains. A test run of 100,000 paperbacks, including the likes of Lost Horizon and The Bridge of San Luis Rey, sold out the first week. By the time De Graff left active leadership of the company in 1957, Pocket Books' annual sales totaled $15 million.

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