By Guy D. Garcia

Looking more like typical tourists than reigning royals, Queen Noor of Jordan, 31, and her husband King Hussein, 47, have been spending a couple of weeks along the French Riviera on "a strictly private family holiday." With Sons Hamzah, 3, Hashem, 2, and three-month-old Princess Iman in tow, the couple relaxed in a villa near Cannes. To pass the time, they savored ice cream on the terrace of St.-Tropez's chic Chez Senequier, sunned aboard a cabin cruiser named Sinbad and supped with Lebanese President Amin Gemayel, who was also briefly on the Riviera. Well, they only looked like typical tourists.

The odds were a stupefying 2 million to 1, but even that chance at the $8.8 million jackpot, the largest in North American history, was too good to pass up. So three weeks ago, Nicholas Jorich, 59, plunked down $20 of his savings for 20 Pennsylvania lottery tickets.

Wham! He hit, and last week the retired steelworker from Harrisburg, Pa., got a check for $336,157.56 (with 20% off the top for Uncle Sam), the first of 21 annual payments. Jorich plans to use the money to buy a new Cadillac, a beach house for his wife, a college education for his granddaughter and more lottery tickets. Why? "I need pocket money."

Cynical fans had begun to wonder less about a player's totals in yards rushing than in drugs rushing. Last week National Football League Commissioner Pete Rozelle, 57, finally decided to tackle the problem with the first N.F.L. suspensions for using cocaine. Pete Johnson, 29, and Ross Browner, 29, of the Cincinnati Bengals, E.J. Junior, 23, of the St. Louis Cardinals and Greg Stemrick, 31, of the New Orleans Saints will be barred from training camp, practice sessions and competition through the fourth game of the N.F.L. season. That will cost them about 25% of their salaries. "N.F.L. players occupy a unique position in the eyes of the public," said Rozelle in explaining the decision. "They are objects of admiration and emulation by countless fans, particularly young people."

Having replaced her late mother at the helm of Monaco's Girl Scouts, Princess Caroline, 26, welcomed a respite from the grown-up pressures that accompany most official duties. She and 56 other Girl Scouts set up camp at the Chateau de Marchais, the sprawling Grimaldi estate a few miles north of Paris. For the outing, the princess donned appropriate shirt and kerchief and joined in such camp activities as peeling vegetables, doing the dishes and sleeping under a tent Like everyone else. Said Caroline, who was a real scout until age 15: "It was like a bout of childhood, like going back to being twelve years old again." It could not last, of course. This week she will be back in formal evening dress at her brother Prince Albert's side as he presides over Monaco's annual Red Cross ball.

My dear, can it possibly be 17 years since you first strutted out on the Broadway stage to take your ten-year-old orphaned nephew under your wing and into your rose-tinted life? It was all so delicious, a Tony Award and 1,500 performances, if memory serves. But surely by now even Mame must be showing her years. Last week, though, critics and audiences were ignoring the age lines as Angela Lansbury, 57, led much of the original cast back to Broadway in a slavishly, lavishly exact re-creation of the full-tilt musical. Well, maybe only three-quarter tilt by now, but still enough, as Mame would say, to "Live! Live! Live!"

--By Guy D. Garcia

On the Record

Pete Townshend, 38, rock guitarist for the Who, on the celebration of Mick Jagger's 40th birthday last week: "He heard rhythm and blues before I did, played it before I did, made a million before I did, went to America before I did, tried LSD, DMT, cocaine, marijuana and so on before I did. But I have stopped living for rock 'n' roll before he has."

Mario Cuomo, 51, Governor of New York and father of three college-age children, on the size of the advance that Random House is giving him for a proposed book on politics: "A lot. Several tuitions." This file is automatically generated by a robot program, so viewer discretion is required.