When Raquel Welch, 33, slipped and fell on the Madrid set of The Three Musketeers, grimacing from the pain, was it because she was smarting from Producer Ilya Salkind's remark, "Raquel is very big in all the small countries"? Or was she simply making sure of getting attention in an all-star cast that includes Charlton Heston, Oliver Reed, Faye Dunaway, Geraldine Chaplin and Michael York? Filming was halted briefly to determine that Raquel, who plays the heroine, had only sprained her arm. No strategic areas were damaged.

Author Richard Bach may be surprised to learn that his inspirational flight manual, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, has run into flak from a Red Guard group in Fukien province. Noting the popularity of the "tasteless and absurd" book in Chiang Kai-shek's Taiwan, the group, via "Fukien Front" radio, has attacked what it calls "the Chiang gang's insidious motive in advocating the seagull character." The motive: to persuade intellectuals to oppose Communism. "Prominent personages in the Chiang gang," noted the young Red Guards, "have even openly called on the people to act like this particular seagull, pursue an ideal and live to work rather than work to live."

Her blonde hair pulled straight back into a bun at the nape of her neck, Maureen Dean, 28, became familiar to millions of TV viewers as she sat stage right of husband John Dean III at the Senate Watergate hearings. Wanting to avoid unwelcome public attention since then, "Mo" has changed her hair color to light brown and the style to modified Botticelli angel. Trouble is, she plans to show off her disguise on NBC's Dinah Shore Show. Yet another hair style will then presumably be in order so that she can try again for anonymity.

As an impoverished Memphis teenager, Singer-Composer Isaac (Hot Buttered Soul, the theme from Shaft) Hayes lived one summer in a junked car. Should the necessity arise again, Hayes, 31, has ensured that he will have all the comforts of--er--home. While seven cars, including his gold-plated 1972 Cadillac Eldorado, rest in his Memphis garages, Hayes tools around the country in his latest acquisition: a 30-ft. silver-gray Cadillac limousine that can be started by remote control in cold weather. Included in the $36,000 price tag: a red velvet love seat, bar, refrigerator, color TV and stereo. Plus two phones and two electrically operated sun roofs. There's a closed-circuit TV intercom between front and back seats.

Even if ABC does not renew his talk-show contract at the end of the year, Dick Cavett is making sure that there will be theatrical scoops aplenty to remember him by. Last June it was Marlon Brando. In October it will be Katharine Hepburn, 63, till now adamant about "making a spectacle of myself" on TV. Agreeing only to discuss the idea of an interview, Hepburn arrived at ABC's Manhattan studios last week to look them over. Curling her lip at the "hideous" orange carpet and making sure that she would not have to change her turtleneck sweater and slacks for a "beaded gown," she threw a curve: "Oh hell, let's get it over with." Cavett had hoped for just such a break and had a camera crew on call--thus he was able to videotape a two-part interview on the spot and schedule it for release well before Hepburn's official TV debut this fall as Amanda in Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie. After the taping, Hepburn gave Cavett some farewell advice: "Keep thinking. Don't solidify."

Already familiar to TV viewers as the jowly, red-headed minihuckster selling Tasty Cakes, Underwood Chicken Spread and Post Raisin Bran, Mason Reese, 7, is ready for his new job as columnist on WNBC's Sixth Hour News (TIME, Aug. 20). On a solo trial, Mason showed a natural talent for interviewing his peers (the subject: Wacky Packages, the latest bubble-gum cards). This week he makes his first regular appearance with a classic third-grader story: "My First Day Back at School."

The party at the Palazzo Volpi in Venice started at 11:30 p.m., and if the 600 guests wanted any dinner, that was "their problem," said the host. There would, however, be a buffet at 4 a.m., spaghetti at 6 and pasta fagioli later on. Count Giovanni Volpi, son of Mussolini's economics minister, was giving the most brilliant international ball of the season with a guest list that included Princess Grace of Monaco, Audrey Hepburn, Christina Onassis, Andy Warhol and Marisa Berenson. In spite of a dawn rumor that all Italian frontiers would be closed because of the cholera outbreak, everyone seemed to have a good time. Especially Senator Ted Kennedy's wife Joan. Roman Publicist Giorgio Pavone said she was absolutely "the toast of the evening, with all the Italian bachelors around her." Asked where Teddy was, Joan replied, "Oh, he's babysitting back in Hyannis Port."

The Great Howard Hughes Hoax has claimed its most pathetic victims, Nedsky, 5, and Barnaby, 3, the children of Edith and Clifford Irving. While their parents are in jail, the boys live at home with a legal guardian on the Spanish island of Ibiza. They come to the U.S. on occasional visits to see their father in the federal prison at Danbury, Conn., but are not allowed to visit Edith in the Swiss jail where she has completed six months of her two-year term. According to New York Post Reporter Sheila Moran, Nedsky is suffering from aggression and Barnaby from depression. "When a baby is separated from its mother, the baby is lost, isn't he?" a psychiatrist recently asked Barnaby. "No," replied Barnaby, "the baby is dead."

While most of the folks back home were sweltering in a heat wave, America's favorite fluffhead got caught in a gust of wind straight off the steppes, or anyway at the foot of Gorky Street in Moscow, and found her umbrella abruptly demolished. Goldie Hawn had turned up to "get into some young people's heads" and find out what it would be like to be "the girl from Petrovka." That will be her next role in a movie about a Soviet Holly Golightly who falls in love with an American correspondent (Hal Holbrook). Goldie quickly became convinced that there is "no room for a free spirit" in the U.S.S.R. and flew with relief to London to prepare for the filming, to take place soon in Yugoslavia.

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