Former President Richard M. Nixon

assiduously wooed the Teamsters Union during his Administration and even commuted the prison sentence of its popular president, James Hoffa. In the first public sortie from San Clemente, during which he openly invited--and enjoyed--the attention of the press, Nixon chose as companion none other than Hoffa's replacement, Teamsters President Frank Fitzsimmons. The missing Hoffa's name was never mentioned as Nixon, Fitzsimmons and other high union officials teed off in a benefit golf tournament at the La Costa country club in Carlsbad, Calif. The entourage that appeared for the former President's "coming out" was intriguing. Tournament participants included Anthony Provenzano, unofficial boss of New Jersey's Teamsters; Allen Dorfman, convicted in 1972 for accepting a kickback from a union pension-fund borrower; Jack Sheetz, a businessman indicted but not prosecuted for misuse of union pension funds; and some other figures linked to organized crime. After finishing the day with a respectable 92 on the 72 par course, Nixon retired to a recreation room for a private chat with a select group of fellow players and autographed scraps of paper for guests' children.

Tart-tongued and tempestuous Actress Glenda Jackson, 39, has played fiery female roles ranging from Charlotte Corday (Marat-Sade) to the D.H Lawrence heroine Gudrun Brangwen (Women in Love). Little wonder that the Academy Award-winning actress has been cast as the spirited Sarah Bernhardt who often demanded that her theatrical fees be paid in gold. "I feel I know her," says Jackson, on the set of Sarah. "She refused to be stifled or live her life to other people's conventions." The Divine Sarah, in fact, liked to take naps in a satin-lined coffin to remind herself of life's transience. Jackson has no qualms about repeating that scene. Says she: "I've been in coffins before, starting from when I played Ophelia."

It has been A Hard Day's Night for John Lennon in his four-year battle against deportation from the U.S. because of a drug conviction in Britain. Things took a turn for the better when Lennon got a temporary suspension of his case on humanitarian grounds: Wife Yoko Ono's pregnancy. Last week, on the eve of Lennon's 35th birthday, his ordeal finally ended; a court of appeals barred immigration officials from deporting the ex-Beatle. Said the jubilant Lennon: "It's a great birthday gift from America for me, Yoko and the baby." Two days later, Yoko, 42, gave birth to Sean Ono Lennon.

Great Britain's Prince Charles has received his first command. Now 27, he will take the helm of H.M.S. Bronington, a sturdy 360-ton minehunter that spends most of its time plowing the North Sea in search of World War II mines. Though the appointment is considered a bleak and boring one among old salts, England's future King is known to welcome any sea duty as a way to escape from royal protocol. On the Bronington, however, Charles may long to be a landlubber again. Explains Kelly Green, 23, a cook on the ship: "She is old and rocks a lot. In a gale I put a pot of stew on and tie it to the top of the stove. Nobody eats it anyway. Everybody gets seasick."

Senator William Proxmire, a staunch opponent of the confirmation of Carlo Hills, 41, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, is no sexist. He also gave Carla's husband, Roderick Hills, 44, a grilling. During Senate hearings to consider the appointment of Hills as chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Proxmire recalled that once while jogging to Capitol Hill he had encountered a former SEC chairman riding to work in a limousine. Would Hills require a limousine? "I shall not," he replied, but added, "nor shall I jog." Hills told the Senators he would share his wife's limousine or take the family car--which Proxmire approvingly noted would save the taxpayers $20,000 a year. That was more than enough to convince the Senate. At week's end Hills received his confirmation.

The sweet young thing flees from the Paris home of her shoemaker father at age 15 after her uncle rapes her. Caught by the flics--who also rape her--she is placed in a Catholic home for wayward girls and eventually escapes to take up residence in a Spanish bordello. French Porno Film Maker Jean-Franc,ois Davy's latest flick, Exhibition, is the real-life story of its star, Claudine Beccarie, 30, who has already appeared in 44 other French Films Bleus. "I have no inhibitions," says Beccarie, a shapely brunette whose preferences include bisexuality and gourmet cooking in the nude. (Neighbors stop by frequently to borrow sugar.) Exhibition, a box office sensation in Paris, had its U.S. premiere last week at the New York Film Festival. The porno queen herself flew in for the screening with her current lover, Didier Faya, 20, in tow. "He was a plumber," explains Beccarie matter-of-factly. "He came to fix my pipes."

Actress Tatum O'Neal has switched from pitching Bibles with her father Ryan O'Neal in Paper Moon to pitching baseballs for Coach Walter Matthau in the forthcoming movie The Bad News Bears. Tatum, who these days fancies stepping out to parties in long gowns with superfluous decolletage, doesn't much care for her film costume: a Little League baseball suit. "It's suffocatingly hot," she complains. Furthermore, she isn't interested in baseball, and had to have coaching by Papa Ryan before she could get the ball across the plate. Even worse, when Los Angeles Dodger Steve

Garvey visited the set, Tatum didn't recognize him. "Are you a baseball player or what?" she asked. "He sure must play something," she said to a fellow teammate. "Look at those shoulders."

Basketball Star Connie Hawkins, 33, has suffered defeats before, but never one as decisive as his recent 20-0 loss in a one-on-one game with 5-ft. 4-in. Singer Paul Simon. Actually, it was the script rather than Simon's erratic defense that kept the 6-ft. 8-in. Atlanta Hawks player from scoring. The match was staged for NBC'S Saturday Night show scheduled to be aired this week. Host Simon wanted Hawkins on the show--along with former Partner Art Garfunkel and Singer Phoebe Snow--because "he's got a great sense of humor." After playing ball with Simon for two hours to tape a seven-minute segment for the show, Hawkins had some advice for his pint-size opponent: "Stick to singing and songwriting."

Sex appeal has never been the forte of Actor Donald Sutherland, 40, and his new look--shaved-off eyebrows and a partly shaved scalp--does nothing to enhance his allure. Yet those are some of the changes that Makeup Artist Giannetto De Rossi, 33, has wrought to transform Sutherland into the lady-killing hero of Federico Fellini's film Casanova. In a three-hour session each morning on the set in Rome, Rossi also gives Sutherland a false chin and nose, then winds his remaining shoulder-length hair into curlers that stick out over his ears, making it difficult for him to use the telephone. "My God, is that what Casanova looked like?" asked one dismayed female about the results. Sutherland is unperturbed. "Fellini thinks that my Casanova is attractive," he says, "and I think he is attractive."

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