ENGAGED. Elizabeth Taylor, 52, violet-eyed veteran of stage, screen and marital campaigns, including two spectacularly publicized ones with the late Richard Burton; and Dennis Stein, 52, entrepreneur, man-about-New York City and her steady companion since they met a month ago, reportedly on a blind date; she for the eighth time (she is once widowed and six times divorced, most recently from Virginia Senator John Warner in 1982), he for the second; in Los Angeles.

MARRIED. Sally Field, 38, perennially plucky actress (Sybil, Norma Rae) currently being tipped as a possible Oscar nominee for her acclaimed role as a quietly determined widow in Places in the Heart; and Alan Greisman, 37, movie producer (Windy City), whom she met six months ago, when he brought a project to her fledgling production company; she for the second time (she is long divorced from Steven Craig, the father of her two sons), he for the first; in Tarzana, Calif.

INDICTED. Don King, 53, spiky-haired boxing promoter who has organized some of the sport's major bouts as well as various entertainment events, including this year's Jacksons Victory Tour; on 23 federal counts of income tax evasion, filing fraudulent tax returns and conspiracy; in New York City. With his longtime secretary, Constance Harper, King allegedly skimmed $1 million from his corporation's receipts between 1978 and 1981, mainly by collecting boxing-event fees from Las Vegas' Caesars Palace by cashing in gambling markers for unreported cash payments from the hotel's casino. King, who once served four years for manslaughter in Ohio, could face up to 46 years' imprisonment and $65,000 in fines if convicted on all charges.

DIED. Hobart Freeman, 64, reclusive founder of a controversial eleven-year-old faith-healing sect, the Faith Assembly, whose 2,000 members are taught to shun medicine on the grounds that it is linked to witchcraft and that doctors are little better than magicians; of heart disease, pneumonia and gangrene; in Shoe Lake, Ind. Freeman, a former Baptist Bible scholar who told his followers that he would not die because prayer had enabled him to survive several heart attacks and an auto accident, was indicted last October in the death of a 15-year-old disciple from chronic kidney disease. The Fort Wayne (Ind.) News-Sentinel has reported that at least 88 Faith Assembly members have died from treatable illnesses or injuries.

DIED. Vicente Aleixandre, 86, sickly, solitary Spanish poet who won the 1977 Nobel Prize for Literature for such volumes as La Destruction o el Amor (1935) and Historia del Corazon (1954), which dwelt on themes of love, death and eternity, often employing striking mystical or surrealistic metaphors from nature; of kidney failure; in Madrid. An invalid from his mid-20s, when he contracted recurrent kidney tuberculosis, Aleixandre became part of the Generation of 1927, a brilliant group of young poets that was sundered by the 1936-39 civil war; too ill to fight or leave, he was the only member not killed or exiled. As a republican sympathizer, he was silenced by Franco until 1944. By staying and not submitting, however, Aleixandre became a rallying point for what remained of Spanish literary life and a considerable influence on younger Spanish poets.