Cornelia Wallace, 34, the beautiful second wife of Alabama's Governor George Wallace, likes to drive fast, so fast, in fact, that she recently joked to a nonplussed Dick Cavett, they had to "put a governor on me." She has now approached the sound barrier as a passenger in an F-4 Phantom fighter belonging to the Alabama National Guard. Back on the ground at Montgomery's Dannelly Field, Cornelia announced, "I think we should have more women pilots, and I hope it will not be too long before we have a woman in the space program." Meanwhile, dressed as she was in an olive flight suit with the three stars of a lieutenant general on each shoulder, Cornelia outranked every man in sight.

Pert, occasionally impertinent Newswoman Sally Quinn, 32, this week begins squaring off against NBC's Barbara Walters each morning on CBS-TV. During rehearsals leading up to the debut, she was alternately laughing hysterically and feeling "frozen with terror." Sally shares an apartment with her longtime boy friend, Warren Hoge, city editor of the New York Post, but their schedules leave them few free hours together--she works from 1 a.m. till noon, he from 8:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. When Sally moved to Manhattan, her colleagues at the Washington Post, where she had been a reporter for four years, gave her a going-away present in keeping with her new status: a full-size door marked with a huge gold star. One fellow staffer scribbled a tongue-in-cheek reference to Sally's rise to instant fame: "Write if you get work."

They were back in Rome where it all started eleven years ago during the filming of Cleopatra. This time it was quits for Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. After a 17-day separation and brief reconciliation, the Burtons were filing for a "friendly" divorce in Switzerland, their legal residence. In spite of rumors about Peter Lawford, Warren Beatty and Helmut Berger, Liz denied that there were any other men involved. Richard was equally insistent that he had no new loves. Meanwhile, Liz began work on her new film The Driver's Seat. Her comment to those who tried to console her: "It takes one day to die--another to be born."

When Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty thrashed to death as the gunfire of Texas Rangers sheriffs' deputies hit their car in the climactic scene of Bonnie and Clyde, audiences too were riveted to their seats in horror. Now Peter Simon II, 22, a casino owner from Jean, Nev., who saw the movie three times, has become the proud owner of the actual death car, a Ford V-8 sedan that Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow stole in 1934 from a farm in Topeka. (Barrow wrote Henry Ford I: "I drove Fords exclusively when I could get away with one. For sustained speed and freedom from trouble, the Ford has got every other car skinned." Its new owner plans to exhibit the sedan, still bloodstained and riddled with 160 bullet holes, at $2.50 a throw. For him it wasn't exactly a steal. He paid $175,000 for it at a Princeton, Mass., auction, making it the most expensive used car in history, dearer even than Adolf Hitler's Mercedes 770-K, which went to a Pennsylvania amusement-park owner for $153,000 last January.

"It sure is great to be home," said Indianapolis Mayor Richard Lugar in the understatement of the summer. He, his wife Charlene and their four sons had flown to Denver for a week's vacation in the Rockies. Because of the gas shortage, the Lugars spent most of the first day waiting in a long line to fill up their rented car at a self-service gas station. The next day, Charlene bit down on a piece of rock candy and broke off a tooth. On her way to the dentist, she slipped and broke a bone in her foot. Back in Indianapolis, a wheelchair and crutches awaited the Lugars' 6 p.m. return, but aboard their scheduled plane in Denver, a stewardess accidentally blew open a large hatch that ejected an emergency chute. The crew could not get the chute back into the plane, so the Lugars grabbed another flight to Chicago. There they made a sweaty cross-terminal dash, with Charlene in a wheelchair, to their connecting flight. Aloft, Lugar looked out the window and discovered that one of the engines was on fire. The plane returned to Chicago to be welcomed by fire and emergency trucks. A fourth plane finally got them back to Indianapolis and a patiently waiting cop, with wheelchair.

The kidnapers were demanding $17 million ransom for Eugene Paul Getty II, the 16-year-old grandson of the American oil billionaire (TIME, July 30). After Paul's grandfather refused to shell out, his mother Gail Getty Jeffries returned to Rome from her seaside hideout and appealed to the kidnapers to "negotiate on a more realistic basis," reportedly offering them $500,000 instead. Meanwhile the redhaired, freckle-faced Getty turned up nude in several poses for Playmen, a spaghetti imitation of Playboy. The pictures had been taken a week before his disappearance and sold to the magazine for $1,000 by a photographer friend.

John Ehrlichman told the Ervin committee that he was too busy with momentous problems to devote much time to Watergate. One of the matters to which he gave priority has now come to light. The editors of Campion's Picture Encyclopedia had routinely sent a copy of the Campion Yearbook to the White House library, and Ehrlichman on March 12 found time to fire off a letter criticizing the new volume. "Nothing that Senators [Vance] Hartke and [Hubert] Humphrey have written on today's veteran justifies in any way the price of the book. To the contrary," wrote Ehrlichman, referring to an article on amnesty by Humphrey and one on veterans by Hartke, the chairman of the Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Ehrlichman said he was sending the Yearbook back because it was a "journal of very slanted opinion."

"I could not dance for another second with Rudi. He is so jealous!" Russian Ballerina Natalia Makarova was giving her side of the story about why she had walked out on her new partner Rudolf Nureyev in Paris. "That man!" she sputtered. He became furious when he realized that crowds at an open-air production of Swan Lake had come to see her, not him. Moreover, "I am used to ballet that is refined, and a partner must be refined, flexible, sensitive." She added, "Things are difficult for a man who is 35." So much for the speculation that Natalia, 32, would replace Margot Fonteyn, 54, in Rudi's pas de deux.

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