Warming up at a press conference for a bit of political education work among his Iowa minions in Des Moines. Teamster Boss Jimmy Hoffa righteously excoriated Old Enemy Bobby Kennedy for "acting like a little hoodlum" and "not representing this country's democracy in a proper manner." The Attorney General's offense: "He travels around the world in his shirtsleeves."

In a gambit that Capablanca never dreamed of, bumptious U.S. Chess ChampionBobby Fischer, 19, invoked the majesty of the law against former Champion Samuel Reshevsky, 50, himself an ex-boy wonder. Having defaulted a 16-game series with Reshevsky last summer by disdaining to show up for an 11 a.m. match, Late-Riser Fischer sued for resumption of the competition lest ''his reputation as the most skillful and proficient chess player in the U.S. be irreparably damaged and tarnished."

By way of proof that not all Harvardmen fetch up on the New Frontier. Massachusetts' Senator Leverett Saltonstall ('14) assembled at a Capitol lunch eleven fellow alumni who are all Republican members of Congress. Flaunting their Cambridge-induced independence of mind by wearing their three-button suits, the old boys did not hesitate to bite the hand that had fed them knowledge. "A Harvard professor." proclaimed Ohio's Representative John Ashbrook ('52), "is an egghead who thinks the American eagle needs two left wings." The consensus was best expressed by New York's Senator Kenneth Keating (LL.B. '23 ): "It's about time it is known that Harvard turns out enlightened men as well as Democrats."

Under the apprehensive eye of a more practiced Pagliacci, Emmett Kelly, 63, Novice Clown Debbie Reynolds, 30, went through her droopy-trousered paces at a Los Angeles premiere of the International Super Circus. Other show business talents ranging from Sammy Davis Jr. to Jayne Mansfield also donated their services to the benefit performance in support of a cause peculiarly appropriate for Hollywood: a clinic for emotionally disturbed children.

The White House lawn provided a cornucopia of attractions for the twin firmaments of the Washington week. Jacqueline Kennedy and Empress Farah (see THE NATION ). "Be sure," Fledgling Hostess Caroline Kennedy told Mother, "to show her Robin's grave." The beloved pet bird (a canary despite its name) had been laid to rest just a day before, and the visiting queen stifled a smile to affect fitting bereavement. Most fawned-over fauna on the landscape, however, was John F. Kennedy Jr., 1 1/2, who sprang up in his perambulator to pay court to the dazzling empress, but adamantly said, "No" when she proffered a daffodil.

Having decided after long and clamorous struggle that "the day of the small, family-held corporation is gone." Vivien Kellems, 65, Connecticut's would-be Joan of Arc whose "voices" seem to ring like Ayn Rand, sold out her 34-year-old cable-grip works in Stonington. But her vendetta against the Internal Revenue Service would go on. Renouncing a 1961 pledge to stick to her "knitting by the fireside" (among other reasons: she can't knit). Liberty Belle Kellems menacingly warned the bureaucratic foe: "I'm just getting a second breath."

In a sentimental Capitol Hill ceremony mustering many of the Congressional colleagues who voted to end his 20-year Republican House leadership in 1959, a bust of Massachusetts' genial Representative Joseph Martin, 77, this week was unveiled in the "Hall of Fame" rotunda of the Old House Office Building. Sculpted by Suzanne Silvercruys Stevenson, artist sister of ex-Belgian Ambassador to the U.S. Baron Robert Silvercruys. the bust, commissioned by women's Republican clubs, will take its place alongside eight other hallowed Congressional heads al ready in the hall.

Inevitably, in these days of equality of the sexes, the New Frontier pastime of club quitting spread to the ladies. The Daughters of the American Revolution had barely recovered from the oblique rebuffs of Jacqueline Kennedy when they were flat-out repudiated by an almost one time First Lady, Elizabeth Stevenson Ives, 64, sister of the U.S.'s U.N. Ambassador. Opting out some 50 years after she first joined the Illinois chapter named for Grandmother Letitia Green Stevenson (wife of U.S. Vice President Adlai Ewing Stevenson and the D.A.R.'s only four-time President-General). "Buffie" Ives charged that "a growing number of the official policies of the organization are wholly out of line with the policies of the U.S. as formulated by both the Republican and Democratic parties and as over whelmingly endorsed by a majority of the American voters."

Manhattan's Parke-Bernet Galleries --the mortuary-like bureau of cultural standards which inNovember auctioned off the "Million-Dollar Rembrandt" for$2,300,000 -- last week provided some even more provocative insightsinto the values of U.S. collectors. Where a penciled score by FredericChopin went for $40, a set of letters from John Glenn to an auto dealer fetched $425 and a collection of Charles Lindbergh memorabilia brought $3,500. Sharpest reflection of the spirit of the age, however, was theprice commanded by some correspondence of Sigmund Freud: $13,500.

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