WHAT'S IN A NAME? WHY, FAME, THAT'S WHAT

Quiz time: He's a musician with Latin looks that set hearts aflutter. (Hint: his surname is Iglesias.) No, not Julio. It's ENRIQUE IGLESIAS, the Spanish balladeer's son. While studying business administration at the University of Miami, Enrique, 20, decided to major in the family business: singing. He practiced at a pal's apartment and started crooning in Miami's Cuban restaurants. He kept his secret from Dad until he had signed a three-album record deal. Being the offspring of a celebrity "helps open doors,'' admits Enrique, "but people look at you with a microscope. If you make one mistake, you're gone.'' Now he has toured Spain and South America with his first album. One single, Si Tu Te Vas (If You Leave Me ), even jumped past his father's latest recording. Um, back home, is that a mistake?

FLIGHT PLAN

"Now the hard struggle begins," said ALICE MILLER, 23. By a 3-to-2 decision, Israel's Supreme Court cleared the way for her and other women to fly as combat pilots in the nation's air force. She has a commercial license and now must pass the admission test to take the air-force training course. The sky's no limit.

AND THE WINNER IS...

The British judges argued among themselves and then made their decision, though it was not unanimous. The odds-on favorite Salman Rushdie was bypassed, and PAT BARKER, 52, a former teacher who did not publish her first book until 1982, was named this year's Booker Prize winner. Her novel The Ghost Road is the finale of her trilogy about World War I and concerns soldiers treated for shell shock. "I'm going to have a holiday,'' she said of the $31,650 that comes with the award, "but I have nothing planned beyond that.'' Rushdie, who picked up the 1981 Booker, was under heavy guard at the award banquet in the City of London's Guildhall. He gallantly congratulated Barker and declared, "She is an excellent writer and deserves to win. "Of his own failure to walk away with the prize again, he shrugged, "Lightning doesn't strike twice."

DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME

Australian STEVE IRWIN, 33, catches crocodiles barehanded and relocates them to his Queensland Reptile and Fauna Park. His TV series The Crocodile Hunter has won him a staunch following in New Zealand and Canada as well as at home. Irwin and his wife Terri are going high tech, making a CD-ROM of their exploits to acquaint people with uncuddly endangered species like crocs. "They have great maternal instincts,'' he insists. Irwin filmed his latest adventure: a trip to North America. In New York City, where the only crocodiles are on Wall Street, he snuggled with an alligator, whom he found sweet and shy.