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Having slaughtered friends and relations at whim before his own assassination in A.D. 96, the Emperor Domitian was hardly the sort to make a girl look dreamy. Still, his stone head at the Swiss Antique Dealers' Fair in Berne did bear a thatchy resemblance to French Movie Actor Jean-Paul Belmondo, 33, and Actress Ursula Andress, 30, momentarily struck a rapt pose during a visit to her home town. In Paris, Jean-Paul's wife of 14 years, Elodie, has been less enchanted ever since Ursula and her husband finished Up to His Ears months ago and took off together for an idyllic holiday in Tahiti. Elodie has filed for divorce. Now friends say, "Belmondo will marry Ursula at once if she asks him."
Still recovering from an operation in August to remove a tumor from his vocal cords, California's Senator George Murphy, 64, asked the Senate's consent to violate its rules by speaking through a microphone and portable amplifier. When Murphy had finished a brief speech on the antipoverty program, New York's Senator Jacob Javits was so impressed with the tones that he rose in the hush of the chamber to amplify his longstanding suggestion that microphones be installed for all the Senators, who have traditionally enjoyed the advantages and disadvantages of not being able to hear one another speak very clearly. Murphy immediately raised his mike and broadcast: "I should like to be a co-sponsor on such a measure."
Even though Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, 67, has always preferred mountain climbing to social climbing, the annual "Green Book," Washington's suede-bound registry of capital society, had listed his name for 29 years as an acceptable chap to invite to a party. Then last summer, having divorced his third wife, a lass of 26, His Honor married Oregon College Student Cathleen Heffernan, 23. Bad form, ruled Green Book Publisher Carolyn Hagner Shaw, banishing the Justice from this year's Social List of Washington. The snub hardly mattered to crusty Douglas, but his bride said a little sadly: "He's been getting criticism for a long time. I'm a newcomer to it." Another newcomer, Hostess Barbara Howar, 31, full-time swinger and onetime unofficial consultant to Luci and Lynda Bird —before she was blackballed by the White House for discussing her Johnson friendship too freely—was also frozen out of the Green Book. She gave the frost right back. "That," she sniffed, "is kind of like being asked to leave Nedick's."