Shades of La Dolce Vita -4 a.m. in Rome and Amazonian Anita Ekberg in full cry. Six carabinieri were needed at the Cavalieri Residence to quell the disturbance. It seems that Anita, after waltzing home all aglow with vita and vino, had yanked the covers off her sleeping spouse, Sometime Actor Rile.von Nutter. "I didn't want to hit her in the face," Rik explained. "I just turned her over my knee and gave her the reddest butt you ever saw. And that's not a tiny bottom."

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The perils of space travel and walking on the moon are one thing, but federal bureaucracy is something else. Astronaut Neil Armstrong, who will take over a NASA desk in Washington as a coordinator of aeronautical research between Uncle Sam and industry, was asked whether he had sold his house in Houston. "Maybe I'd just better keep it," he grinned, "in case I need a hiding place from the Washington people."

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A warehouse full of Hollywood history was on the block, but few of Hollywood's own won out in the bidding. At the auction of 46 years' and a rumored $1,600,000 worth of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer props and costumes, Debbie Reynolds tried to buy her own brass bed from The Unsinkable Molly Brown, but just didn't want to go as high as $3,000. The day belonged to unknown buyers, who put up $2,400 for Bert Lahr's cowardly-lion suit from The Wiz ard of Oz and $1,250 for Clark Gable's battered trenchcoat. Grace Kelly's gowns from The Swan were a fire-sale bargain at $150 and less, but another nameless fan had to go to $15,000 for Judy Garland's red slippers from Oz. As the bidding spiraled around him, Actor Jack Cassidy said, "I'll be lucky to get a spear from Ben-Hur." As it turned out, he didn't even get that.

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His last picture, Anne of the Thousand Days, was virtually stolen by young Genevieve Bujold as Anne Boleyn. This time out, Richard Burton was rehearsing an episode for next season's Here's Lucy TV series, and as he told the story, it was "terrible to work with two big stars" like Lucille Ball and his wife Elizabeth Tayor. "Give me back the unknowns," he groaned. Still it is hard to believe that Burton could be totally upstaged while playing -as he does on Lucy's show -a Shakespeare-spouting plumber.

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To students at Los Angeles' Loyola University, the imitation of W. C. Fields in My Little Chickadee seemed uncannily exact. And why not? The imitator was W.C.'s grandson Ronald, 20, who was using the act to propel his campaign for student-body president. He even paraphrased parts of his grandfather's 1940 book, Fields for President. Sample: "Many of you have asked why I am running for President when I already have a promising future as a veterinarian." Unlike Grandpa, he won.

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Cathy the snake charmer, Emmet the elephant-skinned boy and Percilla the monkey girl were all amazed that he was still swinging up there -however erratically. "Normally flyers can't take it more than once a day because their hands get sore," said John Pugh, general manager of the Clyde Beatty-Cole Bros. Circus. "But he's been going up three and four times a day. He's got a lot of guts." The daring young man was do-it-yourself George Plimpton, who has tried just about everything else. This caper was for a TV special, Plimpton at the Circus. Besides the trapeze, the Paper Lion took on the "taming" of a pair of real lions named Nero and John-John.

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The Canadian visitor Down Under was given a pamphlet from Truth, a right-wing New Zealand newspaper, charging that in 1940 he was "booted out of the Canadian Officers Training Corps for lack of discipline." Not so" he said. "I failed to come up to academic and health standards, and was not considered leadership material." Which may come as a surprise to 21 million Canadians, since today Pierre Elliott Trudeau is their Prime Minister.

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They are archrivals in Britain's business of turning stately homes into tourist traps. Yet the Duke of Bedford invited the Marauess of Bath to open his $2,500,000 "Wild Animal Kingdom" at Woburn Abbey. Only the animals refused to cooperate. As Bath drove around the preserve in his Bentley, a lion named Reggie leaped onto the hood. Three baby elephants had charged him as he cut the blue ribbon. When Bath held his ground, 450-lb. Tess trampled his foot. Lamely, his lordship predicted success for Bedford's menagerie.

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