For months now, the lady's outspoken statements have been conspicuously missing from the press--in obedience, no doubt, to an injunction from U.S. Attorney General John Mitchell. Henceforth, he has decreed, if his wife Martha must speak out in public, it must be in Swahili. But what husband has ever silenced his wife? Administering the oath of office to the new president of the American Newspaper Women's Club in Washington last week, Martha spoke in near-faultless Swahili: "Je unaaba kwa kweli kwemba ueazhwga . . ."*Ruled the Attorney General, who was present: "The oath in Swahili is perfectly legal."

Rumor has linked the name of the President's elder daughter Tricia Nixon, 24, to a herd of eligible bachelors, among them White House Aide Jeff Donfeld and Barry Goldwater Jr. Nothing serious, said Mother last week in an obvious effort to scratch the whole field: "Tricia has a boy friend in every port." Nonetheless, White House insiders insist that there's a front runner, Harvard Law Student Edward Cox, 23, whom Tricia first met six years ago at a Chapin School dance in New York. In fact, these Washington touts are hinting that Tricia and her steady Eddie will altar all rumors and marry by the end of the year.

Even the Soviet press tuned in with a sweet note for the world of music's unrivaled Gabriel. "The King of Jazz with a golden trumpet" was Sovietskaya Kultura's tribute to Louis Armstrong, who reached 70 last week. Back home, many of the big names of jazz joined well-wishers at Los Angeles' 6,500-seat Shrine Auditorium for a brassy birthday bash, and somebody baked an 11-ft., $1,500 cake. "The biggest thrill I ever had in my life being honored by these cats," said the Satch, visibly moved.

His forte is music, not films. Nonetheless, last week in Paris, Pianist Artur Rubinstein, 81, received an honorary Oscar for his contributions (the dialogue and the music) to L'Amour de la Vie, a movie based on reminiscences of his life. Asked if the pianist could also be considered an actor, Gregory Peck, an Oscar winner himself (To Kill a Mockingbird in 1963), who presented the statuette to Rubinstein, replied: "Good Lord, yes. He's a much better actor than I am."

Can't a father take his daughter on a cruise to Alaska without stirring up a fuss? Not if Daddy is Cory Grant. Outraged because the Peninsular and Oriental passenger steamship company released a picture of him and his four-year-old daughter Jennifer (his only child, by Actress Dyan Cannon, 32), the 66-year-old actor called off the trip and vowed to sue the line. Why? Because, said Gary, "my ex-wife and I have agreed not to allow our child to be photographed. There's too much crime and violence in the world, and we don't want our child to be recognized."

It was a flashy week for pennyweighters--underworld argot for jewel thieves. Among the more prominent victims: Film Actress Maureen O'Hara, vacationing in Australia ($56,000 in jewels heisted from her Sydney hotel room); Singer Teresa Brewer (relieved in Las Vegas of a gold necklace and diamond ring valued at $5,300); TV's Virginia (Girl Talk) Graham ($75,000 in diamonds, pearls and sapphires missing from her hotel room in Chicago).

They are the youngest emissaries ever to be received by Japan's Prime Minister Eisaku Sato. While Julie Nixon Eisenhower, 22, chatted with Mrs. Sato, Husband David, also 22, a little awed by the fusillade of flash bulbs and questions from some 70 Japanese newsmen and photographers, inquired of the Prime Minister: "Is it always like this in Japan?" Replied Sato, beaming: "Of course not. This is a special treatment for you." After that, the young couple were off to Expo '70 to lend their presence to U.S. National Day at the fair.

To honor the centennial of Canada's vast and sparsely settled Northwest Territories (1.3 million sq. mi.; pop. 33,000), Elizabeth II of England this week is pushing farther north than any of her predecessors have ever gone on a ceremonial tour. On her ten-day, 4,000-mile itinerary is a stop at the village of Resolute Bay, 700 miles north of the Arctic Circle, where the entourage (100) will nearly equal the residents (120).

Marianne Faithfull, 23, British singer-actress and daughter of Baroness Erisso of Austria, discovered how costly mink can be. The onetime girl friend of the Rolling Stones' Mick Jogger was caught last Christmas at London's Heathrow Airport trying to smuggle a $2,000 black mink coat in from Rome. In magistrates' court last week, the judge added $1,200 to the price tag.

*"Do you solemnly swear .. ."

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