Milestones, Mar. 5, 1979

BORN. To Joseph Alioto, 63, multimillionaire lawyer and former mayor of San Francisco, and Kathleen Sullivan Alioto, 34,

Democratic aspirant to the U.S. Senate from Massachusetts, who was defeated last September: a son, their first child; in San Francisco. Name: Patrick Joseph.

DIED. Robert George Grosvenor, 68, fifth Duke of Westminster and patriarch of a family whose wealth probably ranks second in Great Britain only to the Queen's; of emphysema; at Enniskillen, Northern Ireland. A descendant of William the Conqueror, Grosvenor served in the Royal Artillery during World War II and in the House of Commons from 1955 to 1964 before inheriting the...

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