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Togetherness was possibly somewhat overdone on July 15, 1943, but Argentina's Diligenti quintuplets celebrated their coming of age nicely scattered about the globe. Maria Cristina Diligenti was in Rome, where she works as a secretary. Carlos and Franco, students in British Columbia, put in a full day's work (though their father is a millionaire industrialist) at their summer jobs as $3.19-an-hour Vancouver longshoremen. Back home in Buenos Aires, Marfa Ester and Maria Fernanda are both married, and have three children, two girls and a boy, between them. But all five sent happy birthday besos and abrazos to one another and their proud parents by telephone.

A typically English young girl's best friend is her pony, and that goes dapple for Princess Anne, 13, who comes from such horsy stock that Dad is sporting an arm in a sling as a result of his third polo spill in 13 months. His only daughter put on a J.G.S. (school slang for jolly good show) representing her school, Benenden, for the first time at a local meet. She took a piebald named Jester over the jumps to win a red rosette (winning team) in the combined competition, picked up yellow (tie third) in junior dressage.

At a dinner given by the Eleanor Roosevelt Memorial Foundation (of which he is chairman), in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., United Nations Ambassador Adlai Stevenson, 64, defined the social life of a diplomat: "Protocol, alcohol and Geritol."

Singing the Internationale, 300 admirers greeted Mexican Artist David Alfaro Siqueiros, 67, on his release from a Mexico City jail, hoisted him on their shoulders and pressed a bunch of red, red roses into his arms. The Mexican government had set the fiery old Communist painter free after he had served four years of an eight-year sentence for inspiring a 1960 leftist riot. But Siqueiros was anything but chastened. "My incarceration has .been but a parenthesis in my political and artistic life," said he, raising his right hand in the clenched-fist salute. And to prove it, he announced plans for the year: 1) complete a mural at Chapultepec castle, the national museum, portraying the Mexican Revolution; 2) complete another for the national theatrical artists' union, and 3) go to Havana to start work on a project dedicated to the Castro rebels who died in the overthrow of Fulgencio Batista's regime.