Born. To Christine Keeler, 24, cash-and-carry-on playgirl in Britain's 1963 Profumo sex scandal; and James Levermore, 24, a civil engineer: their first child, a son; in London.

Died. Giuseppe ("Nino") Farina, 59, Italian auto racer who in 1950 was the first driver to be named World Grand Prix champion, but is almost as well remembered for surviving countless accidents, including one grisly debacle in Argentina in 1953, when he swerved to avoid a wandering child only to cut down five people in the crowd; of injuries following the crash of his Ford-Cortina-Lotus while pleasure-driving in the French Alps near Chambery.

Died. Zinaida Pasternak, 69, second wife of the late Boris Pasternak, who married the author in the early 1930s, and may or may not (no one will say) have had access to the rich Swiss bank account set up for Pasternak's heirs by the Italian publisher of Doctor Zhivago; of cancer; in Moscow.

Died. Lieut. General Richard K. Sutherland, 72, MacArthur's World War II chief of staff who, as his commander's alter ego, shared the darkest and finest hours--from the bitter Corregidor retreat in 1942 to the final surrender ceremony aboard the U.S.S. Missouri in September 1945; after a long illness; in Washington.

Died. Ernest O. Thompson, 74, world's foremost oil conservationist as a 32-year member and often chairman of the all-powerful Texas Railroad Commission, which regulates the state's oil flow (and in turn sets the pace for 30 lesser oil-producing states), who started in the days of unlimited production and prices of 10-c- per bbl., quickly devised a system of monthly quotas for every Texas well; of pneumonia; in Amarillo.

Died. Desmond Young, 74, British author who, as a World War II press officer in North Africa and later as a German P.W., was so mightily impressed by the style and tactics of Erwin Rommel's Afrika Korps that in 1950 he wrote a bestselling biography, Rommel, the Desert Fox, which stirred a whirlwind of controversy over its profuse praise for the German field marshal; of a heart attack; on the British Channel island of Sark.

Died. Narcissa Thome, 84, widow of Montgomery Ward Heir James Thorne, who spent her life creating a world-famed collection of miniature rooms precise in every detail, from the Lilliputian Toby jugs in a colonial kitchen to the diminutive replica of a Fragonard painting in a Louis XVI salon, sometimes spending thousands on a single setting; of a heart attack; in Chicago.

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