Eugene has his Mary, Hubert his Nancy, Dick has Tricia and Julie--yet those campaigning daughters are raw rookies compared with the girl stumping for California's Governor. Maureen Reagan, 27, Ronnie's daughter by his first marriage to Jane Wyman, has been on the hustings for nearly a decade and raps out a line conservative enough to leave her dad in left field. Maureen has toured for the ultra-rightist Constitutional Alliance, recorded folk songs (sample lyrics: "If you fight and your belief is right You'll never let freedom die"), and visited more than 100 cities for the sake of conservatism. Maureen sports a conservative hemline as well. "I sit on a lot of platforms," she says, "and I don't want to worry about where my dress is."

Anthropologists unearthed him in 1856, and described him as a beetle-browed, bent-kneed apeman, though his cranium (at 1,600 cc.) was more capacious than that of a contemporary brain (averaging 1,450 cc.). Writers as disparate as Irving Crump (Og) and William Golding (The Inheritors) patronized him as a subhuman slob. Yet Homo Neanderthalensis, so named for the Central European valley in which his bones were discovered, survived for 2,000 generations and seems to have had the same sensitivities as his descendants. Writing in the monthly report of the French Prehistoric Society, Archaeologist Arlette Leroi-Gourhan described a cave on the Iraqi side of the Zagros Mountains where a 5-ft. 8-in. Neanderthal man was buried by his friends on a bier of wild flowers. Pollen from blossoms plucked 60,000 years ago in mourning for the unknown hunter came from primordial hyacinths, hollyhocks, and bachelor's buttons. Proving, no doubt, that the first men were also the first flower children.

"He's just fine," chirped his wife Cathy, 25, and that was as proper a prognosis as any on the mettle of Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, 69, already striding about a day after surgery in which an electronic "pacemaker" was implanted in his upper chest to correct a slow heart rate. That speedy recovery was hardly a surprise to the residents of Bucks County, Pa. Just two days before his operation, Douglas had heartily outpaced 200 other huffing, puffing conservationists on a brisk, five-mile walk-in to protest the partial closing of the 140-year-old Delaware Canal.

Though he gained plenty of ground in filmland since leaving football (eight pictures so far), Jim Brown, 32, once the terror of the N.F.L., was thrown for a loss after a scrimmage in Hollywood. Investigating reports of loud screaming in Brown's apartment, two deputies were blocked at the door by the 6-ft. 2-in., 225-lb. fullback. "If you're coming in, you're going to have to go over me," snarled Brown and, said the deputies, straight-armed one officer seven feet back into a wall. Police reinforcements soon overcame Brown's defense. After taking a look at his blood-spattered apartment and German Model Eva Marie Bohn-Chin, 22, lying semiconscious below his balcony, they arrested the former Cleveland star on charges of felony battery against a peace officer and assault with intent to commit murder. The prosecutor later dropped the assault charge when Eva refused to name Jimmy as the assailant.

When the first wave of Israeli jets raked the U.S.S. Liberty in the tragic surprise attack last June, the ship's bridge was all but blasted away, and her skipper, William L McGonagle, 42, fell to the deck with blood spurting from a severe leg wound. McGonagle stayed at his post, conned his communications ship by lying on his back and watching the wake, and refused medical aid until the Liberty was out of danger. In a "full blow" Navy ceremony last week, Captain McGonagle stepped forward to receive the Medal of Honor for his "superb professionalism, courageous fighting spirit, and valiant leadership."

After a tour of Indian mysticism, the Beatles are again contemplating things of this world--money, films, electronic recording gadgets, fashions, poetry, music publishing, and even an occasional song dashed off on the side. Still, John Lennon, 27, has a yen to add more crafts to the quartet's credits. His new thing is sculpture, and next month John and a free female soul named Yoko Ono will open an exhibit in London. Those who have seen John's works describe them as "completely indescribable," and no one will guess at what the 35-year-old Japanese film maker will produce. Her last effort, an underground flick titled No. 4, illuminated nothing but some 300 bare British buttocks--one bottom every 15 seconds for 76 minutes.

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