For Henry Ford II last week, dinner at the Waldorf in New York City was a gathering of dear and near members of the clan. In company with his good friend Kathleen DuRoss, his daughter Anne Ford Uzielli and her statehouse steady, New York Governor Hugh Carey, the semi-retired automaker appeared at a banquet thrown by the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith to receive its first American Heritage Award in recognition of his years of civic service. After being praised by National Urban League President Vernon Jordan for his commitment to the ideal of "an open, integrated society," the prizewinner declared that shoring up U S. industry would do as much as anything to bring about "a more just social order."

After playing a sweet young thing opposite Comedian John Ritter in this year's Hero at Large, sultry Anne Archer says she is sinking her teeth into a "character with bite." For Green Ice, a film about murder in the emerald trade that pits her and Ryan O'Neal against Villain Omar Sharif, Archer had to master a loaded gun. "I did well," she laughs. "I learned to hold my right wrist with my left hand, bring the pistol up and shoot right away. My teacher was surprised." And doubtless gave her a blank look.

Verily the Rev. Robert H. Schuller has journeyed far from the California drive-in theater where he founded the Garden Grove Community Church in 1955. Four years did he sojourn there, and the cars in his flock did wax and grow, and so he later moved to a larger church with a bigger parking lot costing $3 million. But still did his ministry prosper, faster yet in 1970 when the pastor began his nationwide Hour of Power on TV. "We were turning people away," he cried. So Architect Philip Johnson has built him a Crystal Cathedral of gleaming glass for $16 million, with seats for 3,000 and 90-ft.-high doors that swing open to reveal the preacher to pilgrims in autos. Says Schuller of his edifice: "Finally we have a church where the heavens can do their thing."

Isn't that Frank Zappa with the shaggy mane and the gleaming sax? Nope, it's Paul McCartney, as he appears in a video-taped film in which he plays, seemingly all at once, six different instruments in ten musical guises. The show is a promo for McCartney II, a new album that features guess who on every instrumental track. The old Beatles will never reunite, says McCartney: "The others don't seem keen enough." Ah, but why reassemble the fabulous four when one can be cloned into ten?

On the Record

Lane Kirkland, AFL-CIO chief, on spending a weekend with corporate bigwigs of the Business Council in Virginia: "The only way to convert the heathen is to travel into the jungle."

Edward Kennedy on why he was tending a stranger's pet outside a primary polling place in Washington, D.C.: "I had to hold his dog to get his vote."

Gene Kelly, veteran hoofer, on dancing in films today: "Everything is so upbeat, there never seems to be time for what Fred Astaire used to do, slow-stepping a girl into a love affair."

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