Amid the complacent pleasures of commencement week, 680 Princeton seniors trooped into University Chapel to hear President Robert F. Goheen preach the baccalaureate. "If you feel that you have both feet planted on level ground," said he, "then the university has failed you."

While this year's Harmon International Aviator's Trophy honoring "the world's outstanding pilot" predictably went to a team of X-15 jockeys -- Test Pilots A. Scott Crossfield of North American Aviation, Joseph A. Walker of the NASA and Air Force Major Robert M. White --the 1961 Collier Trophy "for the greatest achievement in aeronautics or astro nautics in the U.S." fell to a currently sub-sea-level Naval aviator who has been deskbound in Washington since 1955. The Collier winner: Vice Admiral William F. Raborn Jr., relentless ramrod of project Polaris.

As Queen Elizabeth II saluted her household guards at the annual Trooping the Colors ceremony, which honors her official birthday, the great clock over London's historic Horse Guards parade ground boomed out the chimes of 11 a.m. Puzzled TV viewers, whose watches showed 11:03, finally got an explanation from the BBC: since the Queen cannot be late, a little man in the tower had held back the minute hand until she appeared.

Redundantly voted "The World's Most Muliebrous Woman" by the French Parfum Distributors Association, Cinemactress Tina (God's Little Acre) Louise donned a blue bikini and tucked an orchid in her bosom to receive her reward: a dunk in a bathtub full of Arpege at a Manhattan showroom. Tina sloshed hundreds of dollars of Lanvin's best over the side when she sank in, then slithered out. cooing "Now you can say, 'Promise him anything, but give him Louise.' "

When Bon Vivant Georges Lurcy died in Manhattan in 1953, the Paris-born banker who had prospered as a House of Rothschild protege left an estate that included three houses and a famed art collection. After the bulk of his gallery was auctioned off for $2,200,000, Lurcy's trustees were able to provide a $150,000 annual income for his childless widow, Alice Snow Barbee Lurcy, a former Paris nightclub chorine once described by an art critic friend as "staggeringly beautiful, something between Rubens and Renoir." But last week, after the trust managers had sold her five-story, Fifth Avenue Manhattan town house, the 52-year-old ex-showgirl refused to budge, complained: "I can't leave here. They might come in without my knowing it and dump everything out on the street." Denying that she had consented to the sale last February, Alice Lurcy stubbornly sat out court action. Said she vaguely: "I don't know what I'll do if Surrogate Cox orders me to leave my beautiful home."

Appropriately dressed in Kelly green, Princess Grace of Monaco dropped in on Dublin for the first official royal visit in the history of the Irish Republic. Upstaging her husband Prince Rainier, her two children and their hosts--New York born Irish Patriarch (and still President) Eamon de Valera, 78, and his 75-year-old wife--Her Serene Highness drew the biggest crowd ever assembled in Eire's capital, required a doubled guard after 50 were hurt in the hysterical stampede. But the highlight of the trip was her pilgrimage to the Irish seaside village of Westport in County Mayo, from which her grandfather had emigrated. Among the whole population of 3,140 that had come on foot and in dogcarts to greet her, no fewer than 100 were her cousins. Although the Mayo and Monaco Kellys had never previously met, they were not strangers; there has been a continual correspondence over the years between the modest Westport farmsteads and the 15-room Philadelphia mansion.

Out of an English Tudor house in Washington's Wesley Heights came 49 barrels of belongings, traveling cases full of cats, a slim housewife, two teary-eyed teen-age daughters and a dog named Checkers. Directing the moving operation was Richard Nixon, heading home to California after eight years as Vice President. As he well knew, his most impressive credentials for the 1964 Republican presidential nomination would be victory in his state's 1962 gubernatorial race. With Nixon clubs already springing up and Dick already sounding off against Democratic incumbent Pat Brown, it looked as if the old campaigner was back on the trail.

After enjoying three years of much-protested and litigated haven on his $300.000 Miami Beach estate, Marcos Perez Jimenez, 47, deposed Venezuelan dictator, heard a U.S. District Court decree that he could be extradited. If his appeals fail, the onetime junta leader will be sent home for trial on a $13 million embezzlement charge, also faces, says he, certain assassination.

One cliffhanging month after suffering a mild stroke two-thirds of the way up 27,790-ft. Mount Makalu (TIME, May 19). Sir Edmund Hillary, 41, got doctor's orders to never again strike his pick above 16,000 ft.

For Speaker Sam Rayburn, the House is home. Representative of Texas' Fourth District for the past 48 of his 79 years, he moved up to Speaker after the death of William Bankhead (father of Tallulah) in 1940, and by last week -- despite one-term Republican breakthroughs in 1947 and 1953 -- had doubled the previous service record for the post set by Henry Clay.* To commemorate the new mark (16 years, 237 days), Minority Leader Charlie Hal-leek took the gavel for nearly two hours, while one member after another painted the chamber purple with panegyrics for their abashed colleague. Only Republican Whip Leslie Arends momentarily broke the bipartisan coalition as he wished Mister Sam "everything to which you may aspire, except another term as Speaker."

Asked for the secret of his evergreen energy by a delegation of West German sportswriters, Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, 85. gave all the credit to the Italian game of boccie and life at his breathtaking, Rhine-commanding villa south of Bonn. "Since 1937," he explained, "I have been living at Rhondorf, where I can only get home by climbing up the path. It is more than 50 steps." Another advantage of the hillside location: the villa -- although one of the finest in the whole Rhine Valley -- was not appropriated by Occupation officers after World War II, "because," suspects der Alte, "they could not drive up to the door in their cars."

Suntanned and rested after an athletic weekend at home with his kids, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy came to Manhattan bearing jeremiads to a luncheon of the National Association of Attorneys General. The trouble with the U.S. public, explained the young millionaire (whose millionaire father had a remarkable talent for accumulating money), is that it has an excessive interest in material things. Said he: "We're going to have organized crime and corruption in the United States as long as the attitude of the people remains what it is, and the most important thing is to have bigger television sets, bigger autos and earn an extra buck."

During a dissertation on segregation, Georgia's Democratic Senator Richard Russell explained to the Senate that feelings of inferiority were just a figment "in the minds of Negroes who object to associating with members of their own race."

* Clay, the only Representative to serve as Speaker from his first through last day in the House, ran up a record of eight years, 136 1/2 days under two Presidents. His tenure was interrupted in 1814-15, when he was sent abroad by Madison to end the War of 1812, and from 1821 to 1823 during the Monroe Administration, when he quit to resume law practice. In 1825, Kentucky's "Great Compromiser" left the House for good to become John Quincy Adams' Secretary of State.

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