People: Oct. 31, 1969

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"Oh, boy! Oh, boy! Oh, boy!" shouted Soviet Spaceman Georgy T. Beregovoy, as he guided his Lunar Module to a rendezvous. Another Soviet space spectacular? Not quite. It was all part of a tour of Houston's Manned Spacecraft Center that Beregovoy and Companion Cosmonaut Konstantin Feoktistov were taking as guests of U.S. Astronaut Frank Borman, who had visited the U.S.S.R. last summer. The high point of the two. week junket was to be a trip to Cape Kennedy, but the Russians turned it down with a curt "Nyet." The speculation was that they did not want to reciprocate with an invitation to their space base in Central Asia. But when it came to Hello, Dolly! the visitors were all smiles. At first, security men were reluctant to let Pearl Bailey invite the cosmonauts onstage to introduce them to the audience. But Pearlie Mae prevailed. "None of you people in here dangerous, are ya?" she called out —then to cheers she soundly bussed the Russians, and Frank Borman too.

The soothsayer warned one of his clients, Gina Lollobrigida, not to take an auto trip last winter. She ignored the advice—and wrecked her Rolls-Royce, broke her knee and had two operations to set it right. No wonder practically everyone in Rome waits nervously for Astaroth to make his general predictions. As the augur sees 1970: Teddy Kennedy will be completely rehabilitated. Aristotle Onassis will lose a fortune in a series of disastrous reverses—and Jackie as well, after a series of violent quarrels. Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev will be booted out of the Kremlin and discredited, just like Khrushchev. Richard Nixon will settle the Viet Nam war and enjoy the popularity he has always wanted. But not for long. Lurking in the background, Astaroth sees "a young Oriental man" who will touch off World War III and annihilate millions.

If South African Surgeon Christiaan Barnard is bothered by the rising chorus of criticism aimed at heart transplants, he does not show it. To a meeting of the American Association of Medical Assistants in Honolulu he declared that it is infinitely better to transplant a heart "than to bury it so it can be devoured by worms." After the speech, there was an unscheduled appearance by former Vice President Hubert Humphrey, who used to know a thing or two about medicine himself. Said Humphrey, University of Minnesota professor: "If you ever need a pharmacist, keep me in mind. You can never tell —I might be fired from the university."