Milestones May 15, 1995

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EXPECTING. ZOE BAIRD, 42, corporate lawyer whose irregular nanny-hiring practices kept her from becoming Bill Clinton's Attorney General; her second child, sometime in August; in Hartford, Connecticut.

APPOINTED. GEORGE F. WILL, 54, conservative columnist and baseball maven; as commissioner of the new Texas-Louisiana Professional Baseball League; in Dallas.

RESIGNED. GARY MOELLER, 54, head football coach of Big Ten champion University of Michigan; following his arrest on charges stemming from a drunken brawl in which he allegedly punched a police officer; in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

RESIGNED. MARTIN HARWIT, 64, head of the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum; in Washington. Harwit fell victim to the controversy over a planned exhibition of the Enola Gay, the plane that dropped the first atom bomb. Outraged veterans believed the exhibit would have been too sympathetic to Japanese views of World War II.

RECOVERING. GARY BUSEY, 50, movie star; from an apparent cocaine overdose; in Santa Monica, California. The actor, who specializes in red-neck bad-boy parts, was found unconscious at his home by his fianca. Police reported that 11/2 g of cocaine was found in his shirt pocket.

DIED. DON BROCKETT, 65, actor whose diverse roles ranged from the amiable Chef Brockett on Mister Rogers' Neighborhood to a deranged inmate in The Silence of the Lambs; from a heart attack; in Pittsburgh.

DIED. SIR MICHAEL HORDERN, 83, British actor whose portrayals of tragic heroes on stage (Prospero in The Tempest) were counterpointed by comic supporting roles in movies (A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum); in Oxford, England.