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The way he dodged newsmen in The Netherlands, Henry Ford II, 45, must have had something big in the works. A new auto design for Europe? Nope. A new yacht for Ford? Yes! Under construction at a Hague shipyard, the 100-ft. yacht has twin diesels for 18-knot cruising speed, a saltwater conversion plant, sumptuous guest cabins, and a master's suite with an Italian terrazzo-tile bath fitted with gold taps. Rumored cost: close to $700,000. "If one of my friends gets details about this boat," Ford told his builders, "he'll immediately order a bigger, faster, more luxurious one."
"France can keep Mona Lisa. Sweden can have Ingrid, Italy can keep Gina. Monaco can keep Grace. Washington doesn't need them." And why not? "Because," drawled Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, "we have Lindy Boggs." TOSSing a wingding of a birthday party for vivacious Lindy Boggs, wife of House Democratic Whip Hale Boggs, were Lyndon and his Lady Bird, who is fast becoming one of Washington's mostes' hostesses. A heart-shaped cake proclaimed Lindy "Everybody's Sweetheart," and the Veep added further encomiums with a gold-tooled album inscribed "Woman of the Year Every Year."
London, already astir with preparations for the April wedding of Princess Alexandra of Kent, 26, to Angus Ogilvy, 34, second son of the Earl of Airlie, began to bubble in earnest as effervescent Alexandra announced that her chief bridesmaid for the ceremony in Westminster Abbey will be Princess Anne, 12. The couple's gift list, filed at Harrods of Knightsbridge as a handy guide for friends, indicates that they would welcome, among other things, bathroom scales, a portable barbecue, an onyx cigarette box, a toaster, Swedish decanters.
"May I show you how I stand on my head?" said the fiddle player to the Premier. Then both removed their shoes and jackets and went upsy-daisy to discuss the esoteric art of yoga. It was peppery Israeli Premier David Ben-Gurion, 76, paying a courtesy call on Violinist Yehudi Menuhin, 46, after Menuhin's performance of a Shostakovich-concerto at a kibbutz on the Sea of Galilee. What one man didn't know about music, the other didn't know about politics, but they got along fine. Yoga, confided Menuhin, is the best treatment for his slipped disc, and Ben - Gurion, coming head-over -heels again, told how he had cleared up his lumbago the same way.
The man who started all those 50-mile hikes, Marine Corps Commandant David M. Shoup, 58, came due for a bit of ribbing when the Indiana Society of Washington named him "Hoosier of the Year." But Shoup, a native of Battle Ground, Ind., took it in stride when the band played Let's Take an Old-Fashioned Walk. In his acceptance speech, the general warmed anew to the pleasures of the great outdoors, complimented Wife Zola, his faithful camping companion on many a ... But then he stopped himself. "What have I said? I hope the whole world doesn't take off on a camping spree next week."