After the weekly Cabinet meeting, French Premier Georges Pompidou, 54, took over as le boss of the new Haul Comite pour la Defense et l'Expansion de la Langue Franc,aise, formed to ferret out all the linguistic "degradation and corruption" of franglais in the land where tons les types enjoy le shopping at le drugstore, having a whisky-soda or gin and tonic served by le barman while they watch the playboys with sex appeal in smokings (tuxes) stroll by on their way to le dancing or le striptease. Ah, M. Pompidou. Helas, quel job!

Already swarming with familiar names, the Soviet fourth estate had another: Anatoly Andreevich Gromyko, 34, Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko's son, who abandoned a bright diplomatic career as Russia's embassy counselor in London to become deputy department chief of the Soviet press agency Novosti. Now he'll be reporting what Daddy and his friends do from the same building on Moscow's Pushkin Square where Leonid Brezhnev's daughter Galina does her corresponding. Presumably they both will scoop Julia Petrova, a Novosti reporter whose grandfather, Nikita Khrushchev, is not a very good news source any more.

On the 91st anniversary of his birth, a sheaf of chrysanthemums with a card "From Clemmie" was laid on the grave of Sir Winston Churchill in St. Martin's churchyard in Bladon, not far from Blenheim Palace, where he was born.

Comic.Peter Sellers took a few shots of Actor Peter OToole, 32, mugging around with the gloves on in Paris, where O'Toole was filming How to Steal a Million Dollars and Live Happily Ever After. Peter was still admiring that picture of himself a few weeks later when

Count Philippe de La Fayette invited the pug over to his table at a Paris bistro because "I had found him so charming and cultivated at a dinner we had attended together." The charming Irishman floored La Fayette with a couple of well-oiled punches, sending him to the hospital for three days to have his gashed lip and chin patched up. Peter finally apologized for the "disagreeable incident." The count nobly agreed that "the whole thing should be forgiven as an affair between gentlemen," although "of course our lawyers are still conferring" about damages.

In World War II they had a long-stemmed favorite named Betty Grable. In Korea it was Marilyn Monroe, and now the pinup winner in Viet Nam is

German Actress Elke Sommer. But Elke sighed that the whole thing left her a little cold. "I'm very happy that I'm keeping up their morale," said she, but posing for that kind of stuff "makes you feel so silly." Well then, didn't she feel downright ridiculous about that nudie layout in Playboy last year when they showed her doing a striptease? Oh, that. "They kept asking me to pose, and the answer was always no. They went ahead anyway, using scenes from pictures I had made in Europe five years before. What makes me so darned mad is that today I have a much better figure."

It was perfect typecasting, but Gordonstoun School's English master insisted that the lad got the part only because he did so well as the Duke of Exeter in last July's production of Henry V. Anyway, Britain's Prince Charles, 17, did get a much better part than his father, who had to settle for Donalbain in Gordonstoun's-1935 production of Macbeth. Everyone agreed that Charles played the lead as if he were born for it, never muffed his lines, and, as Headmaster Robert Chew said, "mastered ^a great variety of moods." With Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip in the audience, the only line that drew a titter in the tragedy came when the Third Witch of the all-boy trio croaked: "All hail, Macbeth, thou shall be King hereafter!"

The fifth anniversary of the night Camelot opened at Broadway's Majestic Theater was also the fifth anniversary of the night when Composer Frederick Loewe, 61, abdicated, ending the long, rich collaboration (My Fair Lady, Brigadoon) with Librettist Alan Jay Lerner. "Someone asked if I was retiring," remembered Fritz, now ensconced in his private Palm Springs, Calif., palace with automatic waterfall, goldfish pond and year-round roses. " 'No,' I said, Tm simply not going to work anymore!'" He hasn't. Now Loewe just dips into his royalties to laze around Palm Springs and spends the summers on the Mediterranean. Asked if he would ever go back to composing, Fritz winked: "Why should I?"

Ill lay: Pablo Picasso, 84, "recovering perfectly" after he secretly entered Paris' American Hospital last month for a gall-bladder operation; Mexico's ex-President Adolfo Lopez Mateos, 55, recuperating in Mexico City's Santa Fe Hospital after a four-hour operation to relieve a cranial aneurysm; Mrs. Barry Goldwater, 54, in St. Joseph's Hospital, Phoenix, Ariz., for a hysterectomy and removal of a nonmalignant tumor; Mrs. William Miller, 42, wife of Barry's 1964 running mate, in Buffalo's Meyer Memorial Hospital with a head concussion and bruises suffered in a two-car collision in Amherst, N.Y.

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