At his suite in Manhattan's Waldorf Towers, Herbert Hoover celebrates his 90th birthday this week with a family dinner. He is the first U.S. President to live so long since John Adams.

"How much do you feel your'liberty is worth?" asked the Rouen judge. "Twenty million francs!" shouted Rhadames Trujillo, 22, son of the slain Dominican dictator, who was thrown in the hoosegow on charges brought by relatives trying to sink their teeth into the family fortune of $100 million or so. "Excuse my client," pleaded his lawyer. "He is blinded by the thought of the freedom he wants so desperately." So the court blinked at Rhadames' clinker, set bail at only 10 million francs ($2,000,000), which his mother, sister and brother put up in a wink.

"Konrad Adenauer," read the signature on the letter to the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, and it challenged Chancellor Ludwig Erhard's right to determine C.S.U. party policy. Was ist los? headwagged Bonn pundits. The old warhorse re-enters the lists? Der Alte neined them in. "I have a son who bears my name," said he, adding, in case anyone wondered, "That's not to say I have sons who don't." As to the letter, though he didn't disagree with Konrad Jr., the 57-year-old Cologne businessman who had written it, neither had he been consulted beforehand. Explained the 88-year-old parent: "I believe in letting my children run free."

Massachusetts Senator Leverett Saltonstall, 71, is lucky to be a Yankee: he comes from a state where the locals appreciate thrift. His mail clerk, Mrs. Judy Sherbert, spent a year winding the ties that bind the Senator's five daily postal consignments. Some folks might conceivably think her behavior a trifle odd, but not "Salty." He knows whereby hangs a tale to tell the voters of Massachusetts, so he called in photographers and bowled them over with Judy's 9 3/4-Ib. round of twine. "Let's get the ball rolling," he twanged.

A better mousetrap? No, but some awfully cute mice: Maria Shriver, 8, Robert Kennedy Jr., 10, David Kennedy, 9, Courtney Kennedy, 7, Robert Shriver, 10, and Sydney Lawford, 7. They set up the roadside stand in Hyannis Port to sell postcards with pictures of their Jate uncle and other mementoes to raise funds for the Kennedy Memorial Library. The world beat a path to their door, and they raised $50 from the tourists the first day, but then the whole thing got out of hand, and traffic cops sent the youngsters scampering back to the family pen.

So the bashful Bronx butcher married the girl and they lived happily ever after. Only it doesn't end like that for the bull-necked actor who played the butcher in Marty, Ernest Borgnine, 47. Only 38 days after he wed his third wife, Musicomedienne Ethel Merman, 55, Ethel left his bed and board and headed in a huff for the Beverly Crest Hotel. As his sidekick used to say, after he'd closed the shop for the day, "I dunno, Marty, whaddayuh doin' tonight?"

Ohio Psychiatrist George T. Harding III, 60, runs a respectable sanitarium to which the wealthy commit relatives to avoid the rigors (and publicity) of state institutions. As a nephew of Warren Gamaliel Harding, whose love letters to Ohio Matron Carrie Phillips were recently revealed by Historian Francis Russell, Dr. Harding has been distressed by the rattling of his own family skeletons. So he sued Russell and his publishers, McGraw-Hill and American Heritage, to prevent publication of the letters and to collect $1,000,000 damages. American Heritage plans to fight the suit, but their lawyer admits that Dr. Harding's case has its points. A common-law principle holds that while a letter's ink and paper belong to the recipient, its thoughts, and therefore publication rights, belong to the author and his heirs.

Aphrodite showed considerably more of her charms, but goddesses are still being born out of the Aegean sea foam, as a maid of Athens, Kiriaki Tsopei, 20, demonstrated when she became the new Miss Universe at Miami Beach. Preparing for a year of travel and promotions under a $10,000 contract (in addition to her $7,500 first prize), the Greek army colonel's daughter shed the Kiriaki for a more classical Corinna. Then she posed by a statue of Adonis' beloved to show gracefully (36-22-36) how the glory that was Greece still is.

Lots of kids want to grow up to be Mickey Mantle. But what can you do when by eleven you're already Mickey Mantle--Junior, that is? You set out to become Arnold Palmer. Up for a week at Grossinger's in the Catskills with a team of New York Yankee families, the outfielder's son borrowed a ladies' putter to illustrate proper form. Then he picked up a driver, laced the ball 200 yds.--over the rightfield fence in any league.

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