The headcount of Carters at the White House is going down by one. Second son Chip Carter, 27, is moving out in a trial separation from his wife Caron, who will stay on with the couple's five-month-old son James Earl Carter IV. Chip will return to Plains to work in the family's peanut warehouse. His dad was already vacationing down on the farm. The President angled for catfish, had breakfast with Miss Lillian in her pond house and inspected peanut, corn and watermelon fields. To while away the steamy Georgia afternoon, he invited the army of reporters camping out in Americus to come over and "bat some balls" on the Plains diamond. Brother Billy Carter, wearing a sports shirt emblazoned BELLY FLOP AND CANNON BALL DIVING CHAMPIONSHIPS, disloyally took the mound for the "Newsies." His brother, decked out in faded cutoffs, lobbed a steady underhand pitch (no spin) for the White House players, the "Jimmy's." When the Newsies won 14-11, Carter's team immediately demanded a rematch--and lost again. In the third game, the press finally buckled under presidential pressure and lost 19-17. A jubilant Carter shook hands with the crowd and drawled: "I guess we can go back to Washington now."

Born-Again Christian Charles Colson can't help describing his new friendship with Eldridge Cleaver in biblical terms: "We're like Matthew the tax collector and Simon the Zealot, two unlikely people who came together loving one another." Jokes Cleaver: "He's the kind of man I used to put on my dart board." Colson, 45, a former White House aide who served seven months in jail for his part in Watergate, and Cleaver, 41, who still faces a murder rap for his part in a 1968 Black Panther Shootout, met a year ago at a religious gathering in Washington, where they discussed their recent conversions to Christianity. The pair appeared together again last week in Anaheim, Calif., at a "charismatic clinic" at Melodyland Christian Center, founded by Pastor Ralph Wilkerson. The topic of their joint lecture: "Solutions to crime in America today."

Francesco Scavullo photographed dozens of famous women for his book Scavullo on Beauty. He also posed and interviewed the opposite sex for his upcoming sequel Scavullo Men. What's left? Dogs. Scavullo, 47, is now shooting formal portraits of everybody's favorite collie, Lassie, the sixth descendant of the original, who about to star in a new movie. In Scavullo's opinion Lassie is very well groomed and a sal looker, "right up there ith Barbra Streisand." The dog also a photographer's dream. You don't have to worry Dout clothes, makeup or hair," says Scavullo. "Everything is taken care of by God."

Actress Andrea Marcovicci had dreamed of wearing a few of the baubles found in King Tut's tomb, but settled for a necklace once owned by Sarah Bernhardt. She will wear the jewels and an elaborate headdress in her role as Nefertiti, Queen of the Nile, in the Broadway-bound play of the same name. Marcovicci--best known as Woody Allen's girl friend in The Front--admires the strong-willed wife of King Akhenaten. "I like to play women who want something for themselves and will fight for it," says Andrea. To pre pare for her role, she spent hours in the Egyptian collection at Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art and is now reading Herodotus and other historians. Says Andrea: "The well-to-do women had at least three handmaidens and went through elaborate preparations early in the day. They also shaved their heads, which I have no intention of doing."

Nancy Kissinger dutifully saw the sights when she went abroad on diplomatic missions with Henry, and now it is Grace Vance's turn to play tourist. While the Secretary of State conferred with Israeli Premier Menachem Begin, his wife put on a blue and white cap reading SHALOM and took a helicopter trip to Masada, the hilltop fortress built by King Herod on the shores of the Dead Sea. Accompanied by Rachel Dayan and several other diplomats' wives, she looked with interest at the baths in the remains of Herod's 2,000-year-old palace. When the guide described how members of the court discussed problems nude in the baths, Rachel Dayan joked: "Maybe they should hold the Geneva talks in a bathhouse. Agreement might come easier in a steambath."

After 17 years of gigs with Husband Ike, Tina Turner is divorced and gyrating alone. The "Acid Queen" has added some soft ballads to her repertory and toned down her husky voice. "The ears get a chance to rest a little bit," says Tina, 37. When she tried out her new sound in Las Vegas, her backup group, the Ikettes, was gone but her ex, Ike, was right there --in the audience. "We're friends really. There's no war," says Tina. Their 1976 divorce, she feels, was good for her. Explains Tina: "Before, Ike was always there to sort of take care of things. Now I have to take charge. It's a responsibility and a little bit of a headache. But I'm learning."

The wail of the sitar sounded throughout the service, and the bride's jeweled nose pin glittered in the ceremonial firelight. It was the Hindu wedding, in East Detroit, of Lekhasravanti (nee Elizabeth Louise Reuther), 30, daughter of the late Walter Reuther, president of the United Auto Workers, and her fellow Hare Krishna member, Bhusaya (Bruce Dickmeyer), 27. The best man: Ambarish, 27, otherwise known as Alfred Ford, great-grandson of Henry I. No other Fords were in sight, but the bride's uncles Victor and Ted Reuther gamely padded around in their socks and joined the festivities. Said a wide-eyed Victor: "If these walls could only talk, think what they'd be saying about a Reuther marrying in the Fisher home." His wonderment referred to the Moorish-style palace that was the scene of the wedding. Bought by the Krishna cult for about $350,000 (a good chunk of which was donated by Lekhasravanti and Ambarish), it was built in 1928 as the $2.5 million digs of the late Lawrence P. Fisher, onetime president of Cadillac.

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