"The thrill of a lifetime," Dwight Eisenhower called it, and no golfer would say him nay. After 22 years of whacking away at the little white ball, the 77-year-old former President scored his first hole in one by rapping a nine-iron into the cup on the 104-yd. 13th hole at the Seven Lakes Country Club course in Palm Springs. Ike was hot as an afterburner the whole round. He scored an eagle on the par four, 260-yd. eighth hole, and his tee shot at the 122-yd. 18th hit the pin for an easy birdie.

Old William Legge, Earl of Dartmouth (1731-1801), was proud to lend his name to a colonial college where classroom supplies, according to local history, consisted of 500 gallons of New England rum. He would be proud as ever today. News reached the Dartmouth campus in Hanover, N.H., that a Canadian Pacific freight train had been derailed in nearby Vermont, capsizing untold thousands of cases of beer. One contingent of Dartmouth Indians made off with nearly 200 cases the first night, and a mob of them got away with 300 more the next night. The liberated liquid is now buried around campus in snow-covered mounds.

Venezuela's former President Romulo Betancourt, 59, flew home from Europe for the first time in four years to try to patch up his splintered Accion Democratica party. The visit was a brief one, though, for there was another party back in Switzerland awaiting Betancourt's ministrations. That would be Renee Hartman Viso, 44, soon to become his wife. Betancourt disclosed that he had divorced his first wife, Costa Rican-born Carmen Valverde, to be free to marry Renee. But his absence during the long divorce proceedings, some Venezuelans believe, may cost Accion Democratica the 1968 election.

Somehow, the envelope from the Office of Economic Opportunity got addressed to "The Honorable Margaret G. Muskie, House of Representatives, Washington, D.C. 20501." The last name indicated that it was meant for Maine's Democratic Senator Edmund Muskie, but first name prevailed, and it went instead to Maine's senior Senator, Republican Margaret Chase Smith. "This surely must be the ultimate in the OEO's great effort for non-partisanship," Maggie told the Senate. "It not only blends a Republican Senator with a Democratic Senator, but the Senate with the House."

At 74, Eastern Airlines' former Chief Pilot H. T. ("Dick") Merrill still feels at ease in the cockpit of a commercial airliner. So he was right at home riding a jump seat on an Eastern run from"Miami to New York City, where he was hailed by the National Aeronautic Association for "enhancing the prestige of the U.S. as the world's leader in aviation." Quite a leader himself, Merrill has an unmatched 40,000 hours at the controls of everything from early Fokkers to the latest DC-8 jets. Retired because of age in 1961, Merrill still flies "everything I can get my hands on. I sneak out pretty near every night with some of the boys and make an instrument approach in a DC-8 or Boeing 727. There's nothing against that, as long as it isn't a scheduled flight."

Ever since a U.S. Supreme Court decision (TIME cover, April 29, 1966) threw out Danny Escobedo's murder confession because he was denied his right to counsel, Escobedo has been in and out of court on charges of burglary, possession of weapons and drugs. None of them stuck, partly because his lawyer argued that ruffled Illinois and U.S. authorities were unfairly picking on Danny in order to get revenge. His lawyer made the same plea last week as he defended Escobedo against charges of being involved in the possession and sale of 59 Ibs. of heroin. This time it didn't work. Escobedo had made the mistake of selling the junk to a federal narcotics agent. Unless he wins another appeal, Escobedo, 28, faces from 20 to 80 years in prison.

All in all, it was a nasty winter for Paris' most celebrated couturiers. Even Andre Courreges, 44, had buyers at his latest showing sitting on their hands. But Courreges is finding a happier home in the U.S. Boutiques carrying Courreges frocks at prices ranging from $200 to $500 have opened to sensational applause at Sakowitz Bros, in Houston and Bonwit Teller in New York. Bonwit's peddled 150 outfits the first day, leading Andre to confirm that he will spend six months a year in the U.S. "The American way of thinking," he noted, "corresponds to my own."

"This one's for you, Rex," shouted Louis Armstrong to King George V during a command performance in 1932. Satchmo has since learned a little more about protocol, and his ten-minute audience with Pope Paul VI last week--the third Pope to receive him--was properly decorous. His Holiness presented Louis and Vibraphonist Lionel Hampton with medals. The jazzmen responded with a folio of Michelangelo drawings and a couple of autographed recordings--which ought to enliven the Vatican's record library no end.

After Lyndon Johnson called Peter Kurd's portrait of him "the ugliest thing I ever saw," most people assumed that the Johnsons and the Hurds had reached a parting of the artistic ways. Not so. To celebrate their last anniversary, L.B.J. gave Lady Bird a painting by Henriette Wyeth Hurd, 60, Peter's wife and the sister of Andrew Wyeth. And that may not be the end of it. "I would love to paint Mrs. Johnson," said Henriette. "She has a strong face, brilliant dark eyes, and intense feelings and opinions." All the same, Mrs. Hurd added cautiously, "I would insist on a clear understanding of how it would be done before we start."

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