People: Aug. 11, 1967

To the 13,000 Boy Scouts encamped at their quadrennial World Jamboree in Idaho, she was the logical guest of honor, even if she doesn't exactly rough it in her 16th century palace in London, built by Cardinal Wolsey and touched up by the initials of Queen Elizabeth I carved into the woodwork in 1568. For at 78, Lady Baden-Powell, widow of scouting's founder, still serves as Chief Commissioner of the 6,000,000-member World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts ("We've had them all—Queen Elizabeth, Queen Juliana of The Netherlands, and that nice little Queen of Greece"), urges forward the cause of scouting with unflagging noblesse. "When I travel, I always call on ministers and kings and queens," she says. "There's a lot of them left." And should she meet a commoner un familiar with the name of Baden-Powell, she still quotes a rhymed guide to pronunciation taught her by her husband 55 years ago:

Man, matron, maiden

Please call it Baden;

Further to Powell,

Rhyme it with Noel.

Forgotten in Brazilian exile for the past four years, after accusing Charles de Gaulle of "treason" in granting Algerian independence, France's Georges Bidault, 67—twice a postwar Premier, nine times Foreign Minister—took several large steps closer to home, established residence in Belgium and promised a return to France soon. In the meantime, he vowed to say and do nothing to blight Belgian-French relations. When reporters asked if he would approach De Gaulle for an amnesty, Georges replied grandly: "I, Bidault, approach that wretch?" Besides, he said, "to have amnesty one must first have been pronounced guilty. For what it is worth, I have never been convicted."

A naval commander in World War II, Prince Philip, 46, is predictably a demon in a dinghy. A brisk breeze rippled the sea as the duke sailed a Flying Fifteen sloop to the starting line off the Isle of Wight in his first skipperly confrontation with that not notably nautical upstart, Prince Charles, 18. But with the aid of a ringer crewman, Flying Fifteen Designer Uffa Fox, Charles finished a respectable 13th in the field of 22, chantied snatches of The Pirates of Penzance as he sailed past his dead-last daddy. "He's going to be a great helmsman," cried Fox. "He's got it all."

"I got famous first for nothing," she said, "so now I'm much more concerned with the work than the fame." Created whole by expostulatory publicity as the jet set's hottest afterburner three years ago, Baby Jane Holier, 27, is trying "to find reality" through acting, has graduated from $200 underground films to a genuine Hollywood talk-on. She is also enjoying her most stunning success to date—undulating on the floor of off-Off Broadway's Cafe La Mama as the hopefully seductive heroine of a one-acter called The Love Lecture. "You give your all, and they dig it," said Baby Jane. "You can't play a part without facing yourself and communicating." "It's really groovy," agreed her leading man, "all that rolling around onstage together."