Milestones: Dec. 24, 1984

ENGAGED. Elizabeth Taylor, 52, violet-eyed veteran of stage, screen and marital campaigns, including two spectacularly publicized ones with the late Richard Burton; and Dennis Stein, 52, entrepreneur, man-about-New York City and her steady companion since they met a month ago, reportedly on a blind date; she for the eighth time (she is once widowed and six times divorced, most recently from Virginia Senator John Warner in 1982), he for the second; in Los Angeles.

MARRIED. Sally Field, 38, perennially plucky actress (Sybil, Norma Rae) currently being tipped as a possible Oscar nominee for her...

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