"It's no big deal, really," said pretty, big-eyed Broadway and TV Star Sandy Duncan. What she was tossing off so coolly was the blindness of one of her eyes, resulting from a benign tumor operated on last November. "I've been nearsighted most of my life," said Tony Award Winner Duncan. "My father says I can see more than I can understand anyway. What would affect me more--being in the business that I'm in--would have been if the motor area had been damaged. You see, the appearance of the eye is more important, actually, than the vision." She plans to resume her weekly TV series Funny Face in May or June.

Assassin Sirhan B. Sirhan is coming up in the world. After nearly three years in a maximum security cell on San Quentin's Death Row No. 1, the murderer of Robert F. Kennedy has got over his temper tantrums and been moved to Death Row No. 3, where he will be permitted to mingle with "the most amiable" condemned prisoners while waiting for the U.S. and California to make up the public mind on capital punishment.

Walking with friends on Manhattan's notorious 42nd Street at about 11:15 p.m., Bayard Rustin, 61, executive director of the A. Philip Randolph Institute and a longtime civil rights leader, was politely stopped by a policeman who asked to examine the cane he was carrying. Rustin complied. SNICK--the cop twisted the handle and out came a sword. Carrying a sword cane is a felony in New York City if the person involved has been previously convicted of a crime. "Of course I've been convicted before," said Rustin. "I served three years in federal prison in 1943 because as a Quaker I refused to serve in the Army. I find it quite ironic that a man who has preached nonviolence all his life should be charged for such a thing, and for God's sake I didn't know that the cane--part of a collection of over 100--had a knife concealed in it."

One of the most faithful patrons of Washington's Aspen Hill Pet Cemetery is J. Edgar Hoover. Cemetery Director S. Alfred Nash discovered that Mr. FBI has seven little graves there --one with a headstone bearing the inscription "In memory of Spec De Bozo. Born July 3, 1922. Died May 24, 1934. Our best friend." Animal graves indicate something about their owners, says Nash: "A man buries his wife because he has to, but he buries his dog because he wants to."

Barnstorming through Florida, Presidential Candidate Hubert H. Humphrey had a serendipitous confrontation with one of Tampa's more compelling voters. Cielito Lindo is a dusky, almond-eyed Puerto Rican farm-girl-turned-stripper with 38-24-36 to show for herself. The candidate personally pinned an H.H.H. button on Cielito's well-cloven chest. "Come over here," he said, munching a sandwich and patting the seat next to him. "Tell me, what is your real name?" Then, while press cameras clicked, he did not exactly steal a kiss.

Dracula lives! In the image of late actor Bela Lugosi, of course. A Los Angeles superior court has ruled that even though Lugosi died in 1956, the role of the Transylvanian night person is so thoroughly identified with him that his widow, Hope, 52, and his son, Bela George Lugosi, 34, are entitled to share in the money Universal Pictures has made from the licensing of Dracula games, shirts, masks and other horrors fashioned in the Lugosi image.

In Vancouver for an exhibition bout, ex-Champ Muhammad Ali was asked whether he had noticed any differences between Canada and the U.S. Yes, he said, Canada was more peaceful. "But I got up here two days ago and I can't wait to get back home. It's my culture. The bowling alley. The cafe. My friends. The music--James Brown, the Temptations, the Supremes, B.B. King. Bluebirds like to be together, eagles hang out with eagles, sparrows stick with sparrows, buzzards go with buzzards. They're all birds, but they go with their own."

Female chauvinist sexploitation will reach a new level of some kind in the April issue of British Cosmo magazine with its first male nude pinup --a center spread of Germaine Greer's husband wearing nothing but a convenient shadow. Paul du Feu, 36, a London construction worker, was married almost four years ago to Women's Liberator Greer--though they separated after only three weeks, says Germaine, because he wanted her "to be a wife." How does Paul feel about giving his all to the pages of a women's magazine? "I'm a guy who likes birds," he says. "Normally, I'd spend a lot of time, chat and money taking a girl out in the hope of getting somewhere with her. This way--being a pinup--I've got to the clothesoff stage with thousands of birds straightaway!"

To hear Julie Nixon Eisenhower tell it, anyone can get a good feel of what it's like to live in the White House by checking into the nearest Hilton. Answering questions on a tour of the Western Pennsylvania School for Blind Children, Julie said her parents' home is "so big, and there's room service, and every time you walk out the door you run into somebody."

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