ENGAGED. King Hussein, 42, urbane monarch of Jordan; and Elizabeth (Lisa) Halaby, 26, a Princeton architecture graduate, whose father is a former president of Pan American World Airways (see WORLD).

SEEKING DIVORCE. Bianca Jagger, 33, Nicaragun-born member of the glitter set; from Mick Jagger, 33, lead singer of the Rolling Stones; after seven years of marriage, one child; in London.

DIED. Lord Selwyn-Lloyd, 73, Sir Anthony Eden's Foreign Secretary, who with French and Israeli leaders was alleged to have engineered the ill-fated 1956 Suez Canal seizure after it was nationalized by Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser; of complications from a fall and subsequent brain surgery; in Oxfordshire, England.

DIED. William Lear, 75, restlessly creative inventor whose farsighted triumphs include the first practical car radio, the autopilot for airplanes, the eight-track stereo cartridge and, more recently, the Learjet; of leukemia; in Reno. Throughout a prodigious career that eventually netted him more than 150 patents, Lear delighted in tackling "impossible" problems. Intrigued by the prospect of designing his own plane, Lear severed connections in 1962 with the electronics firm he had founded, anted up $11 million of his personal fortune, squeezed bank loans and tapped his children's trust funds to finance production of the small, streamlined, low-cost jet now used by corporation presidents and rock stars alike.

DIED. William Steinberg, 78, German-born conductor who transformed the listless Pittsburgh Symphony into one of the nation's best; in Manhattan. As a Jew, Steinberg was forced to leave his post as music director of the Frankfurt Opera in 1933. He moved on to Palestine, where he recruited an orchestra in Tel Aviv, and then to the U.S., where he became Arturo Toscanini's assistant at the NBC Symphony. In Pittsburgh, Steinberg was known as a disciplined maestro of self-effacing humor whose camaraderie with his musicians helped bring out their best talents.

DIED. Sir Robert Gordon Menzies, 83, Prime Minister of Australia for an unprecedented 16-year span (1949-66), who founded the Liberal Party and took a firm stand against the "downward threat" of Communism; of a heart attack; in Melbourne. The son of a small-town grocer, Menzies always had "a respect for the rights of the top dog." He was never a popular leader, but he towered above his colleagues as a magnificent orator and consummate politician. Nevertheless, his first term as Prime Minister, from 1939 to 1941, ended with a sweeping victory for the Labor Party. He made a spectacular comeback in 1949, after warning Australians that "a vote for labor is a vote for the ultimate bereavement of freedom."

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