ENGAGED. Herschel Walker, 20, Heisman Trophy-winning junior tailback at the University of Georgia who last week denied rumors that he would forsake the Bulldogs for a $16.5 million contract with the new United States Football League's New Jersey Generals; and Cynthia DeAngelis, 21, a Georgia business major from Cocoa Beach, Fla.; in Athens, Ga.

MARRIED. Jerry Lewis, 56, pratfalling prince of klutz currently appearing in Martin Scorsese's film The King of Comedy, and recuperating from a coronary bypass; and Sandra Pitnick, 32, who met Lewis four years ago when she got a dancing part in his movie Hardly Working; both for the second time; in Key Biscayne, Fla.

DIED. Charles G. Bluhdorn, 56, founder, chairman and chief executive officer of Gulf & Western Industries; of a heart attack; on a company jet en route from the Dominican Republic. Bluhdorn arrived in the U.S. from Vienna at 16 and in 1955 bought into the small Michigan Bumper Corp., which he merged and muscled into a huge conglomerate (auto parts to movies to zinc) with 1982 sales of $5.3 billion. "Sometimes I'm full of baloney," the blunt Bluhdorn once said. "But sometimes I have a good idea."

DIED. Lao Su, 57, infamous, elusive Chinese-born opium warlord of Southeast Asia's poppy-rich Golden Triangle; of gunshot wounds inflicted by a Thai border patrol as he was leading a heroin caravan out of his remote refineries in Burma.

DIED. Nathan S. Kline, 66, combative psychiatrist who pioneered in the use of pharmaceuticals to treat mental illness and helped introduce tranquilizers and antidepressants, especially lithium, to enable the mentally ill to live outside hospitals; during heart surgery; in New York City. Kline won Lasker Awards in 1957 and 1964, but the second was successfully challenged by an associate who claimed credit for the achievement.

DIED. Raymond Carlson, 76, editor of Arizona Highways magazine from 1938 to 1971, who transformed a house organ for road contractors into a beautifully produced showcase that attracted more than 400,000 subscribers from all 50 states and 110 foreign countries; in Scottsdale, Ariz.

DIED. Waldeck Rochet, 77, secretary-general of the French Communist Party from 1964 to 1972 who, by putting distance between the party and the Soviet Union, strengthened its appeal at the polls and rebuilt its shrunken membership; in Paris. This file is automatically generated by a robot program, so viewer discretion is required.