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Novelist Charles Percy Snow, 59, the Labor government's assistant minister of technology, has long labored to bridge the gap between Britain's "two cultures," arts and science. And when he was made a peer, so that he could lead the Laborites in the House of Lords, Britain's tradition-encrusted College of Arms told him that for only $500 he could order his own coat of arms. Result: a telescope fesswise—meaning horizontal (for science), two pens crossed (for arts), snowflakes on a field of azure, and on either side a Siamese cat rampant. Why cats? Well, Lord Snow's ministry oversees the nation's Colleges of Advanced Technology (C.A.T., see?), though whether puns are an art or a science the good lord failed to state.
Unlucky Pierre! His senatorial campaign buttons read "P.S., I Love You," but he lost the election, and one voter has returned her campaign button. Nancy Joy Salinger, 36, the onetime presidential press secretary's second wife, who remained behind when he moved to California last June, will sue for divorce in the near future on grounds of "mental cruelty" or "incompatibility." Married in 1957, the Salingers have no children of their own, but he has custody of the three born of his first marriage: Marc, 16, Suzanne, 13, and Stephen, 12, who now live with Nancy in her Lake Barcroft, Va., home.
"We get lots of celebrities in Saranac," explained Blanche Griswold, 58, a Saranac Lake, N.Y., insurance agent. And so when she hurriedly boarded a twin-engine Convair departing the Adirondack ski resort for New York City, she wasn't at all surprised to see Jackie Kennedy sitting in one of the seats. Still, the cabin was crowded, what with Bobby, and Steve Smith, and Caroline and John-John; and to make matters worse, tables had been set up between the seats. "A waste of space," sniffed Mrs. Griswold, whereupon someone gently remarked, "This plane isn't supposed to make money." It was the Kennedy family Caroline that she had boarded by mistake, instead of her scheduled Mohawk Air Lines flight. But everyone was "most gracious" about her goof. The Kennedys chatted pleasantly and shared their sandwich lunch on the flight down, and Mohawk even refunded her $22.95 for the unused ticket.
*An automatic procedure when divorced persons remarry. The Vatican's L'Osservatore Romano also took the unusual step of noting it in an editorial because the Fords are public figures who might by their example tempt other Catholics to sin.