Milestones: Dec. 2, 1966

Born. To Anne Ford Uzielli, 23, younger daughter of Henry II, and Giancarlo Uzielli, 32, Manhattan stockbroker: their first child, a son; in Manhattan. Name: Alessandro Ford Uzielli.

Married. Pamela Drexel, 24, a student at Manhattan’s New School for Social Research, whose blue blood flows from the Philadelphia banking Drexels and from Baron Camoys who fought at Agincourt; and Bradford Walker, 26, a Wall Street stockbroker whose great-great-great-great-great-great-greatgrandfather was Governor William Bradford of the Plymouth Colony; in Manhattan.

Married. Merriman Smith, 53, United Press International’s dean of the White House press corps whose honor it is to end news conferences with the familiar “Thank you, Mr. President”; and Gailey Johnson, 33, a California decorator; both for the second time; in Alexandria, Va., on Oct. 14.

Died. Robert Gordon Shand, 70, longtime (1946-63) managing editor of the New York Daily News, biggest paper in the U.S., with a current circulation of 2,000,000 daily, 3,000,000 Sunday; of a brain tumor; in Manhattan. He once defined what made his tabloid sell: “The real appeal of the News is that it lights up the narrow routine of millions of lives with gleams from the great outside. Its readers thrill with second-hand emotion they will never know: they shudder from crimes they will never commit, they quiver with courage that shall never be theirs.”

Died. David Leo Lawrence, 77, longtime Democratic boss of Pennsylvania; following a heart attack; in Pittsburgh (see THE NATION).

Died. Guy Warner Vaughan, 82, president of Curtiss-Wright Corp. from 1935 to 1949, whose love of speed took him from auto racing and designing (the 1908 Vaughan Runabout) into aviation, where he mass-produced 2,000 airplane engines per month during World War I, went on to develop the first truly U.S. engine (the Whirlwind J5, which powered the Spirit of St. Louis), and expanded his company in World War II to produce 142,840 engines and 26,269 military aircraft; of chronic bronchitis; in-New Rochelle, N.Y.

Died. Sean O’Kelly, 84, President of the Republic of Ireland from 1945 to 1959, whose pixyish personality and dandy dress suited him well for his ceremonial office, particularly on a two-week visit to the U.S. in 1959, when he blarneyed all the boyos and bussed all the colleens, saying to his wife “Look at this one, dear, isn’t she grand?”; after a long illness; in Dublin.