BORN. To Michael Ford, 29, eldest son of the former President and a campus minister at Carnegie-Mellon University, and his wife Gayle, 27; a daughter, Gerald and Betty Ford's first grandchild; in Pittsburgh. Name: Sarah Joyce.

ENGAGEMENT REVEALED. Lee Radziwill, 46, fine-boned younger sister of Jacqueline Onassis; and Newton Cope, 57, San Francisco hotel and real estate millionaire; to be married in San Francisco this week. Radziwill, an interior decorator, divorced the late publishing heir Michael Canfield in 1958 and the late Prince Stanislas Radziwill in 1974. Cope, the widower of Real Estate Heiress Dolly Fritz, will also be marrying for the third time.

DIED. Marvella Bayh, 46, vivacious blond wife of Democratic Senator Birch Bayh of Indiana and ardent fund raiser for the American Cancer after her own bout with the disease began in 1971; of cancer; in Bethesda, Md. An Oklahoma beauty queen, Marvella Hern met her husband when she defeated him in the finals of an American Farm Bureau speaking contest. Known to Indiana friends as Marvelous Marvella, Bayh survived a 1954 auto accident that left her partially blinded for three years, a plane crash ten years later in which she and Edward Kennedy were injured, and the trauma of her alcoholic father's suicide (after he murdered her stepmother), to face terminal cancer with a public vow "to value life, to cherish it and to begin my long postponed dream of being useful in my own right."

DIED. John Carroll, 70, dark, mustachioed actor who played Zorro in films and whose audacious life-style matched his swashbuckling cinema roles; of leukemia; in Hollywood.

DIED. Leopold Ludwig, 71, celebrated Generalmusikdirektor of the Hamburg Opera (1951-70), popular guest conductor of the Metropolitan and San Francisco operas, and versatile interpreter of contemporary opera as well as of Wagner, Strauss and Mahler; of a heart attack; in Luneburg, West Germany.

DIED. Pyotr Pospelov, 80, leading propagandist, historian and theoretician for the Soviet Communist Party and for twelve years editor of Pravda; in Moscow. A malleable and therefore durable ideologue, Pospelov maintained his credit with the party through several changes in its leadership. He demonstrated his political flexibility most dramatically in 1954 by calling for "peaceful coexistence with the West" three years after his vituperative railings against the U.S. had triggered the U.S.S.R.'s "Hate America" campaign.

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