Her resume may have been a bit thin, but the name carried some clout. For the first time since her $56.75-per-week job as cameragirl for the old Washington Times-Heraldin 1953, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, 46, has rejoined the working class as a consulting editor for Viking Press. Jackie, who now collects $250,000 each year from the estate of her late husband, Aristotle Onassis, will concentrate on "initiating books, finding ideas and writers," according to Viking President Thomas Guinzburg, 49, a longtime Jackie friend who declined to discuss his new employee's salary. Lest anyone think that working will interfere with her evenings, Jackie promptly celebrated her job by catching Singer Frank Sinatra's act at Manhattan's Uris Theater and then adjourning to the "21" Club on the arm of Ol' Blue Eyes himself.

"He kept cursing me and said he was going to whip my ass," asserted South Carolina Patrolman J.R. Swicher, after charging Poet James Dickey with drunken driving and disorderly conduct. The author of the riveting adventure novel Deliverance had just driven his 1968 Jaguar off the road and into a utility pole in Columbia, S.C. "There is a kind of complex of roads which I am unfamiliar with," explained Dickey, 52, after spending four hours in jail and posting $132.50 in bail. "I took a wrong turn, and the road didn't go anywhere." Now facing two months behind bars and the loss of his driving privileges if convicted, Dickey plans to maintain control of his poetic license at least. The incident, he mused, should lead to "a couple of pretty good poems."

"Years ago at Paramount, I'd find out about Road pictures from a street sweeper at the studio," recalled Dorothy Lamour, 60, who as a girl of 22 made the sarong famous. "He'd sweep under the open windows where the executives met, listen in and pick up all the latest details." Lamour's old studio contact is long gone, but her co-stars in seven previous Road movies (including Road to Singapore, Rio and Zanzibar) remain. Some time next year, Bing Crosby, 71, Bob Hope, 72, and Lamour will reunite for their eighth cinematic trek, this one titled Road to Tomorrow. Crosby and Hope will portray two grandfathers who grow bored with life and set out for one last fling. And Lamour's role? "Who knows?" says Dottie. "Those two have always treated me like the kid sister. I'm always the last to know."

The contest is billed as the "King of Capitol Hill," a sexist appellation that was sure to stir up interest from feminist Congresswoman Bella Abzug. While congressional Republicans and Democrats spent part of their week preparing to square off in the half-mile bike race, the 60-yd. dash and other events--all to raise money for the retarded children's Special Olympics--Representative Abzug jumped into some sweat pants and sized up the volleyball competition. Her spirits may have been high, but some opponents doubted whether she would be able to reach those low returns. "My serve," confessed the Congresswoman, "obviously is better than my spike."

"There were times when Golda was really broke," recalls former Israeli Premier Golda Meir's personal secretary, Lou Kaddar. "So broke that she scarcely had food for the children. But now that is all changed." In fact, with her new autobiography, My Life, selling at a brushfire pace in 17 languages, Golda at 77 may soon find herself a millionairess. She has already received a $450,000 advance from her British publishers, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, and royalties and film rights could more than double that figure. However, the loot is fast becoming an embarrassment to Golda, who has long shunned any trappings of wealth. She has planned a small addition onto her modest 2 1/2-room cottage outside Tel Aviv, says the secretary, "but other than that she has not decided what to do with the cash. I think she simply does not want to think about it."

"It is the most fantastic party we've ever had," said Film Producer Kevin McClory, after opening his 500-acre Irish estate outside Dublin to performers from Duffy's Circus and a parade of Hollywood stars. Well, promotion might be a better word for it, but it certainly was eminently successful. With 980 spectators paying $40 and more for seats, Performers Shirley MacLaine, Sean Cannery, Burgess Meredith and Eric Clapton donned clown costumes and joined with Duffy's jugglers, acrobats and tumblers--all to raise money for a pair of children's charities: the Central Remedial Clinic and the Variety Club of Ireland, dedicated to the support of blind and handicapped children. High point of the celebrity get-together? Low comedy, as MacLaine & Co. launched a pie-throwing exhibition in center ring. McClory, who collected $50,000 from his big-name bash, now hopes to bring in even more cash for kids by converting film of the day's events into a television special.

Old age makes his speech unintelligible and his gestures childlike at times, say visitors to Peking, but Chairman Mao Tse-tung, 81, still rises to the occasion when it comes time to pose with guests like Thailand's Prime Minister Kukrit Pramoj and Iraq's Vice President Taha Moheddin Maruf. More mobile, obviously, is the Chairman's wife, Chiang Ching, 61, who surfaced last week in Shansi province to make her first public speech since the chaotic days of the Cultural Revolution more than five years ago. After addressing a conference on Chinese agriculture, Mme. Mao then showed her proletarian stuff by donning peasant clothing and setting to work shoveling the good earth from a nearby irrigation ditch.

Nine new constituents, even if they can't vote, are nothing to sniff at. That may explain why President Ford went straight to the side of Liberty, his pet golden retriever, after finishing his golf game last week. With First Lady Betty Ford and Daughter Susan in attendance, the 19-month-old family dog gave birth to five male and four female puppies. "She's a good mother," pronounced the President, and then promised one member of the litter to Michigan's Leader Dog School for the Blind and a second to White House Photographer David Kennerly. Although it was a big day for the country's First Dog, the event was fairly routine for Misty's Sungold Lad, champion retriever from Oregon and acknowledged father of the new family, even though they no longer live together. The pups bring his list of offspring to about 410.

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