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Milestones, Feb. 28, 1977

Engaged. Arthur Ashe Jr., 33, the 1975 Wimbledon singles champion; and Jeanne Marie Moutoussamy, 25, a freelance photographer who met Ashe last year, when she snapped his picture at a United Negro College Fund benefit.

Died. Anthony Crosland, 58, British Foreign Secretary and one of the Labor movement's leading theorists of democratic socialism; of a stroke; in Oxford, England. The son of a senior civil servant, Crosland went to Oxford, where he earned a first in politics, philosophy and economics. While serving in the House of Commons and in various Labor governments, he...

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