They have taken separate vacations, and now Joan and Ted Kennedy are trying separate homes. While the Senator stays with the three kids in McLean, Va., Joan is living in the family's Back Bay apartment in Boston. Does it mean a formal separation? According to Kennedy's office: no. According to Joan, she and Ted get together at least once a week. Their new living arrangements, she explains, are to enable her to take a course in music at Cambridge's Lesley College. And while she is there, she says, "I'm going out and have a good time, and Ted knows about it." As for Ted, he does not stay at home either. In February, for example, he spent a few days skiing in Aspen with former Olympic Skier Suzy Chaffee. But speculation about a love affair, said Chaffee, 31, before giving a gymnastics performance last week at a Manhattan charity benefit, is nonsense. Suzy says she "has a man in her life and his initials are not T.K." Anyway, she asked, "If Rockefeller were skiing with Kennedy, would people assume they were having an affair?"

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She has spent a secluded year and a half in her family's home in Hillsborough, Calif., since she was released on $1 million bail after 14 months in prison. But last week it looked as though Patty Hearst might have to go back to jail; the Supreme Court let stand her conviction for robbing a bank. Her lawyers immediately asked the federal judge who had given her seven years to reduce the sentence. If the judge says no, Patty will have to spend another 14 months behind bars before she is eligible for parole.

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"She was very forthright, strong-tempered and English," says Lee Remick about Kay Summersby, World War II chauffeur for Eisenhower. Remick, 42, will play Summersby in Ike, ABC's upcoming six-hour movie. To research the film, ABC relied on, among other sources, Summersby's posthumous memoirs, Past Forgetting: My Love Affair with Dwight D. Eisenhower. "She admittedly fell absolutely in love with him. That part is dealt with in the movie, but mostly through implication," says Remick. As for Ike's feelings about Kay, word is that the movie may well conclude that discretion is the better part of valor when treating old comrades-in-arms.

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The night before the birth of her first child, Russian-born Ballerina Natalia Makarova was at the barre. And the day after? "I was doing stretching exercises in bed." Now that Son Andrei Michael (named after Prince Andrei in War and Peace) is three months old, Makarova, who is married to San Francisco Businessman Edward Karkar, is in Manhattan practicing for her May 10 return to the American Ballet Theater. Dancing, she says, is "more of a joy now than ever. It's more of a challenge." Between rehearsals, Makarova, 37, squeezes in time with Andrei. No, he isn't yet en pointe, but his legs, at least in his mother's eyes, are "just like a dancer's."

On the Record

Arthur Burns, former Federal Reserve Board chairman, when asked what makes him happy: "I'll answer your question in the most economic way possible: Not much."

Lynn Fontanne, actress, on her 55-year marriage to the late Alfred Lunt: "We usually played two people who were very much in love. As we were sort of realistic actors, we became those two people. I had an affair with him, so to speak, and he with me."

Adlai Stevenson III, Senator from Illinois: "I just wonder if the Senate and other institutions of self-government are equal to the demands of Government in the late 20th century ... It is getting harder than ever to get anyone with sense to run for office."

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