Never a man to hide the sharp edge of his tongue, Admiral Hyman G. Rickover found biblical inspiration for his own thoughts about Washington's biggest bureaucracy. Appearing before a House subcommittee, Rickover quoted Hebrews 13: 8 as an apt description of the Pentagon: "Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today, and forever."

One of the many women in Pablo Picasso's life has found another man. Next month in Paris, Franchise Gilot, 48, for eleven years the artist's mistress and mother of two of his four children, will marry Dr. Jonas Salic, 55, compounder of the polio vaccine that bears his name. The couple met a year ago in La Jolla, Calif., introduced by a Salk Institute executive whose wife is a longtime friend of Francoise. Those closest to them were reluctant to comment on the impending union. Explained Claude Ruiz-Picasso, 23, Francoise's son by the artist: "I hope you can understand if I don't say anything." Then he added that they are "fit for each other."

Arlo Guthrie's song may go on forever, but Alice is out of the restaurant business for keeps. In Stockbridge, Mass., where Guthrie first sampled Mrs. Alice Brock's cuisine and then set it to music, the manager of the Music Inn, who had hired Alice as cook for the summer, bowed to public pressure and decided to get another cook. Apparently the townsfolk felt that all her publicity would "bring in a lot of undesirable people." Added Alice sadly: "I really had no choice but to quit." Having cooked her last public meal, she retired to the anonymity of her Stockbridge vegetable garden.

Some old judges never die; they just climb another bench. This week, three years after his retirement from the U.S. Supreme Court, former Justice Tom Clark, 70, will begin banging a gavel in a lower court--as a federal district judge in San Francisco.

Bardot in a nun's habit? Isn't that nearly as silly as obscuring Sophia Loren's dramatic qualifications in a movie featuring her, say, as a long-distance runner in a sweat suit? Nonetheless, the French actress, still as curvy as ever at 35, said that she felt challenged by her latest casting in a film Les Novices, to be released in November. Besides covering the Bardot configuration, the role also requires her to play a woman who is terrified of men.

In from Paris last week flew Georges Carpentier, 76, to honor the 75th birthday of Jack Dempsey, who protected his heavyweight boxing title against the Frenchman nearly 50 years ago. At 157 some 10 Ibs. trimmer than when Dempsey floored him with a left hook, Carpentier manfully swallowed a lunch at Dempsey's Manhattan restaurant, sparred playfully for photographers, chided his old adversary's new paunch and refought that ancient fight: "Jack followed me like a mosquito. He never let me do what I wanted to do."

A rift between Ari and Jackie? Not so, rumbled Aristotle Onassis, though European newspapers have had a heyday speculating about a breakup. Then, with his wife of 20 months, Ari left for a holiday on his island of Skorpios, where a photographer with a telephoto lens snapped some unusual pictures that appear in this week's LIFE. Obviously at her ease, Jackie solicitously treats Ari's cut foot, cavorts in the water and walks about draped in a smile of connubial bliss--and little else.

"She was my friend," goes the song, one in a new album released this week. "I thought her motives were sincere/ Ah but this lass/ Had a dark and different plan/ She admired my own sweet man/ Beware of young girls." A sad song indeed, and even more poignant considering the composer: Dory Previn, 41, wife of Composer Andre Previn, 41, who left her last year to take up with Mia Farrow, 25, the mother of Andre's four-month-old twins.

"We're knee-deep in Georges," said White House Curator Clement Conger, explaining why a portrait of Mamie Eisenhower replaced one of George Washington in a prominent position outside the White House's State Dining Room. The shift, ordered by Pat Nixon, was appropriate: Mamie now smiles at the J. Anthony Wills portrait of Ike, which hangs at the other end of the great hall. As for the dispossessed George, he descended to the newly decorated ground-floor cloakroom.

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