Milestones, Oct. 9, 1972

Born. To William McMahon, 64, Australia's Prime Minister for the past 19 months, and Sonia Hopkins McMahon, 40, chic youngest First Lady in Australian history: their third child, a daughter; in Sydney. Name: Deborah.

Died. Eleanor Glueck, 74, Harvard criminologist and a pioneering theorist on the causes of juvenile delinquency; in Cambridge, Mass. Working with her husband Sheldon, a law professor at Harvard, Mrs. Glueck was among the earliest collectors of statistical data on crime in the U.S. The Gluecks spent more than four decades attempting to reduce typical criminal patterns to scientific terms. Out of their work came scores of books...

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