Milestones: Dec. 20, 1982

EXPECTING. Raquel Welch, 42, Hollywood sex symbol currently wowing Broadway audiences in Woman of the Year, and her husband André Weinfeld, 36, French film writer and producer; her third, his first; in August.

DIED. Marty Robbins, 57, Grand Ole Opry pop country singer, who wrote more than 500 tunes about gunfighters, unrequited love and even occasionally the constancy of women, including the million-copy-selling hits El Paso and A White Sport Coat and a Pink Carnation; of a heart attack; in Nashville.

DIED. Herman Lay, 73, snack-food supersalesman and entrepreneur who created the first national brand...

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