People: Sep. 30, 1966

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In London to film a quickie called Two Weeks in September, Brigitte Bardot explained that the theme was "love —the greatest illusion. It is ecstatic, painful and hopeless at the same time." Well, maybe, but following her around, B.B.'s new husband and Great Love No. 3, German Playboy Gunter Sachs, hardly seemed hopeless. And he was not the sort to be upset when Brigitte added: "Of course, love has nothing to do with marriage or children or washing the dishes."

Whitehall was aghast in 1948 when London University Law Student Seretse Khama, young chief of Bechuanaland's Bamangwato tribe, wooed and won London Typist Ruth Williams. She was a white woman, which was bound to cause trouble among the natives. Quietly, Whitehall asked the couple to live out of sight in England. Politely they refused—and when they insisted on going home, the government banished them from Bechuanaland until 1956 when they and their children (now three sons, one daughter) were finally allowed to return. Britain may have long since swallowed its prejudice, but it took until last week to show its pride when Queen Elizabeth knighted Prime Minister (since March 1965) Khama, 45, as Commander of the Order of the British Empire. None too soon. On Sept. 30, Bechuanaland becomes the Independent Republic of Botswana—Sir Seretse Khama, President.

If teen-agers swarm into theaters to see a new spy spoof called Murderer's Row, it won't be for the sake of Star Dean Martin. The big draw is a hirsute trio called Dino, Desi and Billy. Only a couple of years ago, big Dino's 14-year-old son and namesake got together with Drummer Desiderio Arnaz IV, Desi's 13-year-old son, and Guitarist Billy Hinsche, 14-year-old son of a retired Beverly Hills real estate man. Now the boys have a 350,000-record hit (I'm a Fool) and archly refuse to appear anywhere the cops can't guarantee protection from their fans. "I think we would have made it without our parents," says Dino Jr., "but not as quick." And who knows what lies in store after their voices crack?

How sharper than a barber's shears! As proprietor of three fancy salons in London, Hairstylist Vidal Sassoon, 38, has coiffed some of the world's most elegant women, and for the past 16 months he's been practicing his art in a Manhattan shop as well. Trouble is, New York State requires a license for that sort of thing, and it wants him to take its hairdresser exam. "Asinine and obsolete," said Sassoon. "The test requires that I do finger waving and reverse pin curling—things that haven't been used since Gloria Swanson was in silent movies." It wasn't that he couldn't do these things, he added, but that he wouldn't. Responded the New York State secretary of state: You can't.