Born. To Ali MacGraw, 31, romantic star of Love Story, and Robert Evans, 40, Paramount production chief: their first child, a son; in Manhattan. Name: Joshua. Weight: 5 Ibs. 11 oz.

Divorced. By Murray Chotiner, 61, longtime Nixon friend, currently a White House aide: Amalia Chotiner, 44, his third wife; on grounds of irreconcilable differences: after five years of marriage, no children; in Santa Ana, Calif.

Died. I. Rice Pereira, 63, noted abstractionist painter; in Marbella, Spain. She once described her style as a system that seeks "plastic equivalents for the revolutionary discoveries in mathematics, physics, biochemistry and radioactivity." Her cool paintings were made up of carefully plotted blocks, lines and dashes in endless variations. She reached her peak in the early '50s, when she was known for her geometric patterns painted on sheets of fluted and rippled glass, which were then placed one on top of the other so that refracted light jabbed through in a dazzling spectrum.

Died. Dona Maria Teresa de Barros Caetano, 64, wife of the Portuguese Premier; in Lisbon. Suffering from mental illness for the past twelve years, she lived so anonymously that most Portuguese did not even know her name.

Died. Major General Heinrich Lammerding, 65. commander of a Nazi SS division responsible for the massacre of hundreds of French civilians in 1944, who recently came to public attention (TIME, Jan. 11) as Germany and France prepared to plug the legal loopholes that had permitted him to escape justice; of undisclosed causes, although he was reportedly suffering from heart trouble; in Bad Toelz, Germany.

Died. Samuel Hay Kauffmann, 72, president of Washington's Evening Star Newspaper Co. from 1949 to 1963; of pneumonia; in Washington, D.C. Kauffmann's business acumen helped make the Star a continuing financial success, though it has never challenged the editorial eminence of the Washington Post.

Died. Jean Varda, 77, California artist noted for his collages: of a heart attack; in Mexico City. Starting as a portrait painter in Paris, Varda had already switched to collage when he came to the U.S. in 1939. Much of his work was based on the idea that each picture should be remembered for one major color and contain just enough of another to accent the dominant shade.

Died. Gabrielle ("Coco") Chanel, 87, for much of the 20th century la plus grande dame of high fashion (see MODERN LIVING).

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