People: May 20, 1966

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That's certainly true. So to help out the poor lass who finds herself in this and 26 other uncomfortable situations, ranging from rape to purse-snatching, Actress Honor Blackman, 38, who as Pussy Galore gained ambiguous distinction by flipping James Bond on his backside in Goldfinger, has prepared a perfectly ludicrous manual entitled Honor Blackman's Book of Self-Defense—125 bone-cracking pages of judo, jujitsu and karate calculated to make a chap keep his clammy paws to himself. "An undertone of violence is implicit in any male-female relationship," says Pussy primly.

In the past, Artist Andrew Wyeth, 48, has immortalized the landscape around Chadds Ford, Pa., in his lovely, haunted paintings. Now he is fighting quite literally to preserve it. The Fibre-Metal Products Co. asked the township supervisors to rezone 25 acres of meadowland near Wyeth's home to permit construction of a factory. To Wyeth, who has done the meadow many times in tempera and watercolors, the idea was a sacrilege. "The coming of the factory would turn this rural area into a smoke-filled industrial place," he cried. "My neighbors and I are like the embattled farmers at Concord Bridge. We are going to fight."

When he was Vice President, Lyndon Johnson had his Pakistani camel driver, Bashir Ahmad. Now, sure enough, Hubert Humphrey has an international sidekick, Jerusalem Barber Ephraim Mizrahi. The barber doesn't match the camel driver for native eloquence, but he is sufficiently effusive about his hero, who first dropped into the King David Hotel's tonsorial parlor in 1957. "The Vice President is my whole life," glowed Mizrahi, now a steady pen pal who keeps Humphrey's autographed portrait in a place of honor above the hair tonic. "Even Americans do not know what a great man he is." Such a great man, in fact, that Ephraim dreams fondly of clipping in the White House some day.