There isn't much of her to look at (31-22-32 and 90 Ibs.). Even so, it seemed as if every mod in Manhattan had turned up at Fashion Photographer Bert Stern's studio to see Lesley Hornby, 17, the cockney wraith more accurately known as Twiggy. Stern threw a welcoming blast for Twiggy when she arrived in the U.S. with plans to expand her minifashion career by peddling some $1,000,000 worth of her clothes in department stores across the nation and picking up an occasional $120 per hour as a model. At a loss to explain why anyone would pay that much to take her picture, Twiggy said objectively: "Hit's not really wot you call a figger, is it?"

The election next week, said a spokesman for Americans for Democratic Action, will be "pro forma"--which hardly speaks well for their democratic action. Still, the A.D.A.'s nominating committee had made such an imposing choice for its new national chairman that the membership is really not likely to complain. The unopposed candidate: Harvard Economist and old New Frontiersman John Kenneth Galbraith, 59.

He's been hermetically sealed in the joint since last December when he arrived amid reports that he was dying. Since then, Phantom Billionaire Howard Hughes, 61, has been shelling out $250 a day for the privacy of the ninth-floor penthouse atop the Desert Inn in Las Vegas. A bit steep, perhaps, but now Hughes will be paying the rent to himself. For $13 million, he has bought a 50-year lease on the entire 600-room Desert Inn, along with its casino.

At next September's Sao Paulo Bienal, the U.S. will be represented by such pop artists as Andy Warhol and Robert Rauschenberg. But by startling contrast, William Seitz, former curator of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, who picked the entries, opted for a real grandpop to stage the major U.S. one-man show: Edward Hopper, 84, an old master of realism whose cityscapes go back to his association with the "Ashcan" realists. When someone suggested that Hop might be a bit old-fashioned to be keeping such company, Seitz snapped: "It would be ridiculous to eliminate the best artists simply because they were over 40, or were not the discovery of the month."

On her third major project as a reporter for McCall's, Lynda Bird Johnson, 23, surveyed U.S. collegiate patois and produced a "Glossary of Campus Slang--How to Tell What in the World the Younger Generation Is Talking About." It's a little hard to tell what in the world Lynda is talking about, since at least 40 of the 55 terms in the glossary are almost old enough to be in the Oxford English Dictionary: "Cool it," "bug out," "put on," "stay loose." Lynda did uncover one fairly recondite turn of phrase. To "turn your E.B. up to Mother" means to "turn your electric blanket up to the highest temperature; hence, return to the womb and security (chiefly West Coast)."

The black-tie dinner at Washington's Federal City Club was a farewell affair for Pundit Walter Lippmann, 77, who is leaving the capital after 29 years to write his political columns from New York. It was supposed to be a private affair, and the club's president, Columnist Charles Bartlett, was shocked a few days later to find that the Washington Post had published the text of Lippmann's remarks at the party--a wry goodbye to Washington and a few observations on U.S. foreign policy. "The dignity of the occasion," Bartlett huffily told Post Managing Editor Ben Bradlee, "was marred by your professional zeal." With that, Bradlee and the Post's editor, Russ Wiggins, got huffy themselves and resigned from the club. All of which left Lippmann bewildered, since he had given the Post permission to print his talk in the first place.

The diplomacy involved is a bit delicate, since the U.S. State Department would prefer not to turn the defection into any more of an international flap than it already is. Indeed, at first it seemed that the U.S. had turned down Stalin's daughter Svetlana, 41, when she showed up at the U.S. embassy in New Delhi. Last week, while Svetlana remained in hiding in Switzerland, the State Department clarified its position somewhat by reporting that it had in fact issued her a visa to come to the U.S.; the question of whether she will eventually be granted asylum has been left open. However that turns out, the Kremlin is enraged at the Soviet-embassy people in New Delhi who failed to prevent the defection, is calling some of them home for an explanation.

No sooner had the Theater Atlanta Repertory Company started its run of Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra than its Queen of the Nile, Actress Kathryn Loder, took a spill onstage and broke her hand. Her doctors ordered her out of the show, and T.A. Director Jay Broad feared he might have to close the run in his new $1,000,000 house. Then he learned that Negro Actress Diana Sands, 32, was playing Lady Macbeth at nearby Spelman College. Would she fill in? Delighted, said Diana. After four days of rehearsals, she opened as Cleopatra, playing to a near-capacity and fully integrated audience. "I thought it was important to do it," said Diana after receiving a five-minute ovation. "I thought it might be a breakthrough."

Long one of the most dogged congressional critics of the Central Intelligence Agency, Minnesota's Senator Eugene McCarthy, 51, admitted sheepishly to the Women's National Press Club that he now rather hesitates to chastise members of groups bankrolled by the CIA. "I've just found out," he said, "that I'm a member of the board of directors of half a dozen different organizations supported by the CIA."

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