Milestones

EXPECTING. Kathleen Sullivan Alioto, 34, Democratic aspirant to Edward Brooke's Massachusetts Senate seat, and a former president of the Boston School Committee; and Joseph Alioto, 62, former mayor of San Francisco; their first child; in February. In a campaign promise made at a news conference, the mother-to-be announced that if elected in November, she will have a baby. She also observed that if not elected, she will still have the baby.

BORN. To Lesley Brown, 31, and Gilbert John Brown, 38, a truck driver; the world's first baby conceived outside the human body; their first child, a girl; in Oldham, England. Name: Louise (see MEDICINE).

MARRIED. Mickey Rooney, 57, pint-size powerhouse actor whose film career began when he was five as a cigar-chomping troublemaker on two-reelers and later led to television stardom; and Janice Darlene Chamberlin, 39, a singer and writer, and close friend of four years; he for the eighth time, she for the second; in Thousand Oaks, Calif. Confided the bride about her new husband: "Mickey believes so much in the institution of marriage that I can't disappoint him."

DIED. Benson Ford, 59, reclusive vice president of the Ford Motor Co. and chairman of its dealer policy board; of a heart attack; on his yacht, which was docked near Cheyboygan, Mich. Second oldest grandson of Automotive Pioneer Henry Ford, Benson dropped out of Princeton after two years to work in the family company, and eventually headed the Lincoln-Mercury division. But he was happiest behind the wheel of a succession of motor yachts, all named Onika, and partly because of ill health, never played a major role in Ford management.

DIED. Willem Van Otterloo, 70, longtime no-nonsense conductor of The Hague Philharmonic Orchestra; in a car accident in Melbourne, Australia. Noted for his unsentimental interpretations of latter-day romantics like Bruckner, Van Otterloo led the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra from 1965 to 1971, and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra from 1971 to 1978.

DIED. Mary Pillsbury Lord, 73, former U.S. representative to the U.N. Human Rights Commission and delegate to the General Assembly; of cancer; in Manhattan. The granddaughter of the founder of the Pillsbury flour company, Lord served as a volunteer in numerous health and welfare organizations. In 1945 during one of her many tours of Europe for the WAC, Lord struck up a friendship with General Dwight D. Eisenhower, and in 1952 became co-chairman of the National Citizens Committee for Eisenhower-Nixon and campaigned tirelessly for the Republican ticket. In 1953 when Eleanor Roosevelt resigned her post on the Human Rights Commission, Eisenhower named Lord to replace her; she served until 1961.

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