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names faces Connie Divorcing, Doesn 't Blame '74 Rape GEORGE KIRBY, comedian and impressionist, was one ol nine persons arrested in Las Vegas in a drug roundup that netted a half a million dollars worth cf cocaine and heroin. Police charged Kirby, that she starred in at Harvard Theatrical School. Her parents nixed the romance at the time. FRANK CAPRA found his roots last week and they mobbed him. The Hollywood director, who turns 80 in a couple of weeks, got a hero's welcome Friday when he journeyed to Bisacquino, Sicily, the town of his birth.

A crowd surrounded his car, a band played, the mayor made a speech and a relative knocked down a wall in hei house iust to make enough rccm for a 50-person dinner in Capra's honor. The trip stirred Italy-wide interest in the director, winner of three Academy Awards, and Italian TV aired a special called "Mr. Capra Returns Home." Capra's parents and five of his six brothers and sisters left Bisacquino for America 74 years ago. HARRY RF.EMS is in the clear but eight other men connected with the production and distribution of "Deep Throat" have been convicted on obscenity charges in Memphis. The eight were sentenced Friday to federal prison terms ranging from three months to one year and also face another trial for the production and distribution of "The Devil in Miss Jones." Seems was the first actor ever convicted on federal obscenity charges, but his conviction was overturned and the Memphis prosecutor's office announced it wouldn't pursue him in a new trial.

52, and Mary Clay, alias Merry Christmas, with selling heroin to an undercover agent in a $26,000 transaction. The other seven were charged with possession of drugs. Kirby, who turned his impersonations of Johnny the Philip Morris bellboy. Pearl Bailey, Edith Bunker and others into a lucre-' live nightclub career, has been performing on the Vegas strip. JULIE HARRIS has been Kirby CONNIE FRANCIS is divorcing her third husband, but she denies that the action has anything to do with her 1974 rape in a Howard Johnson's motor iodge or her rape trial.

"People will have their own ideas about the rape causing our troubles. He just doesn't want to be a married man," the 37-year-old singer told the New York Post about her marriage to 44-year-old tourism executive Joseph Garzilli. Miss Francis was awarded $2.5 million in damages after suing Howard Johnson's for negligence because of faulty locks that allowed a rapist to enter her hotel room. She testified that the rape harmed her marital sex life. Miss Francis told the Post: "I woke up on Palm Sunday to be told by my husband 'I do not want to be married to you ROSALYNN CARTER'S benign breast lump was discovered just three days before she had it removed.

According to White House officials, the tumor was discovered Monday hiring Mrs. Carter's routine gynecological checkup. On Thursday she had a mammograph breast X-rav at Bethesda Naval Medical Center, and the non-cancerous growth was removed that day with use of a local anesthetic. Mrs. Carter told a reporter that she is "very conscientious" about self-examination but did not find the lump herself because it was "in a kind of flat place." "I feel very fortunate," she said about the experience.

LILY TOMLIN has a date at the New York State Supreme Court in Manhattan Wednesday to tell why she jokingly listed former opera star Zinka Milanov as the "understudy" for her one-woman show Ms. Milanov, who Starred for many years at the Metropolitan Opera, doesn't see anything funny about the billing and has filed a $2.2 million damage suit. The singer's name was included in the Waybill along with names of other well-known persons. The Sting was meant to be "satirical and humorous," the comedienne's stage manager said. married quietly to her third husband, a man she loved 30 years ago.

the actress, 51, and author William Erwin Carroll, 54, are honeymooning in a cabin in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. They met and fell in love in the 40s when he wrote a play about the South BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS? Victoria Fyodorova, the Russian actress who was fathered by an American naval officer and now lives with her American husband and baby in the States, says she would like to see herself as a bridge between Russians and Americans. "I would really like to help both countries find very friendly ways because the two peoples are very, very similar," said Victoria, 31, now a model for a cosmetics firm. She and pilot-husband Fred Puoy and their one-year-old boy live in Connecticut, AP Photo Detroit 4frcc rcss The People Page 23-A SUNDAY, MAY 1, 1977 IliUie Jean King On how lonely it is at the top: "I don't have any one best friend, probably because I live like a gypsy. I have two or three close friends.

When you walk off the court when you lose, there's Larry (King) and there might be two other close friends. I mean, come on. They're around when you're winning, Calvin Murphy Professional basketball player, on sinking tree throws in front of a hostile crowd: "The most beautiful sight in the world is that ball fading through the net, then the sudden silence. It's like taking on 15,000 people at once and beating them all." William Howard Taft "Too many people don't care what happens so long as it doesn't happen to them." Bernard Baruch "The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles." Dina Merrill mm Actress and New York and they're not around when you're losing. You learn about people." John F.

Kennedy "Peace takes more than words. It takes hard work and large-scale efforts. Above all, it takes a government which is organized for the pursuit of peace as well as the possibility of war, a government which has a program for disarmament as well as a program for arms." Ceorge Santayana "Man is a gregarious animal, and much more so in his mind than in his body. He may like to go alone lor a walk, but he hates to stand alone on his opinions." Carroll Baker socialite, on women with famous names going into the clothing business: "I think it depends on the lady. Diane Von Furstenberg is an extremely successful, very hard-working gal.

I recall meeting her when she and Egon were first married, and 1 don't think she was working Actress, on moving to Europe to find work: "I love my work and love to move i.bout at the same time. Without work, I go mad. I don't know how contemporaries like mine, like Shirley MacLaine and Natalie Wood and Joanne Woodward, can go three or four years between jobs. That would just One opponent calls Charles S. (Chuck) Robb, left, "Chuckie Bird," to emphasize his association with his mother-in-law, Lady Bird, and wife, Lynda Bird (above).

Robb has faced adversity before, including his stint as a Marine recruiter on college campuses during the height of the anti-war movement in the late '60s, when he'd walk in in full dress uniform (right). then. She was just a very pretty young girl, but look what she's accomplished She's a very bright, savvy, smart lady and she's to be congratulated. She's made a tremendous success. I think Polly Bergen has been very successful with what she's done; she's worked very hard at it.

Eva (labor's line, I don't think really was that successful; 1 think she's done better with wigs. Gloria Vanderbilt does the most beautiful designs for fabrics; lovely, lovely things. And now clothes Mary McFa-dden is a very talented girl and is doing a beautiful line of clothes." Paul Harvey Radio commentator, on today's youth: "Maybe we've been worried about the wrong things. Because the school-agers who do misuse drugs and sex are likely to make the most titillating news, we have overlooked the increasingly responsible attitude and disciplined behavior of the achievers. They are using their heads.

Seventy-three percent say that corporate power is too great. At the same time, 66 percent say unions hold too much political power. In the bullpen warming up is a generation of maturing leaders who are going to be wiser than ours were." drive me insane. Among certain groups there's a snobbish thing, where they say, 'Well, you're just doing these European films. They're unimportant.

Most of them aren't shown in But I feel no work is wasted. These Latin movies cover the whole Latin world. And no one really knows what will happen. Maybe they'll be on American television. Maybe there'll be a big film festival of the movies I did in Europe.

It always takes time to see. But I think one thing that is important, which 1 didn't do in the years I lived in America, is to always work." LBJ's Son-in-Law Tries To Cut Loose from Texas Chuck Robb is running for lieutenant governor of Virginia. Trouble is, some voters don't think he's a Virginian. A Protest, Then Flames BY ELEANOR RANDOLPH Chlcaqo Tribune DINWIDDtE COUNTY, Va. Charles S.

(Chuck) Robb is having problems in bis first campaign for state office in Virginia. It seems a lot of people think he comes from Texas. His wife, Lynda Bird, comes from Texas. His mother-in-law, Lady Bird Johnson, comes from Texas, and a lot of the Robb family funds come from Texas. But Charles Stiffal Robb, 38, known as "Chuckie Bird" by one of his opponents in the race for lieutenant governor, considers his roots and his political future to he in Virginia.

"UH, MR. ROBB?" a man in a blue leisure suit beckoned the candidate at a rural Pepsi-and-homemade-fudge party. "Uh, wonder if you could answer me just one question." Robb nodded and the man paused, perhaps to choose his words carefully. Like the others in this modest backwoods farmhouse, he seemed shy about talking to a North Virginia lawyer who looked like he'd just been outfitted by Brooks Brothers, whose haircut probably cost more than some of them made in a day and who had just apologized to a group of farmers because he had dust on his wing-tipped shoes. "Uh, you born here?" the man asked finally.

Robb winched. In Virginia, it was a mean question. "No, I wasn't born here, no sir. I did not have the pleasure, but my mother is a ninth generation Virginian," he said, beginning a long genealogy that starts with a Virginia colonel who helped kill Indians in 1764. "I'm not sure everybody really wants to know about how I do have impeccable credentials as a Virginian." For the record, Robb was born June 26, 19.19, in Phoenix, and spent his early years in Ohio.

He did, however, complete two years of high school at Mount Vernon, outside Washington. SOMEHOW, it seems odd that Chuck Robb is having problems with his credentials. If they hadn't picked Robert Redford to play the polititian in "The Candidate," they might have picked Chuck Robb. He is nice and clean and wholesome. Chuck Robh, it seems, has done it all the American way.

He was a Chi Phi at the University of Wisconsin in a telephone interview from her McLean, home outside Washington. "But he's the one who's running. "I know the problems. 1 know it takes time from your family and this job lieutenant governor makes $10,000 a year, so it's expensive. "I do value my privacy.

I do enjoy my time with my children and my husband," she said. Then, without apologizing for it, she complained about her husband being in Vietnam when they were first married, then in law school, then campaigning last year for Jimmy Carter and now into his own politics. ASKED IF she knew Robb would go into oolitucs when she married him, she answered, "No, You think you know everything about a person and then you find out you don't. Actually that's what's fascinating about it, there is always something new. "But I support him in this.

I have been through him with that other, and I intend to stay with him through th.s. The thing is that if I didn't support him and he lost, I'd feel very, very bad." "Oddly enough, Robb does have a chance in this state," says one political expert. "People are very impressed with his sincerity, his gracious nature and his intellect. His major opponent in the June 14 Democratic primary, Richard J. Reynolds, is the brother of J.

Sargeant Reynolds, a popular lieutenant governor who died of a brain tumor six years ago. And Robb comes from the northern part of the state, which is richer and closer to Washington. No state politician has been elected from the north since 1912, Robb says. BUT ROBB sees the odds and proceeds much the way he did In the late 1960s when he recruited for the Marine Corps on college campuses. The late 1960s was not the best time to wear a uniform on most college campuses, much less recruit for the Marines.

"I went on college campuses 1n my dress blues with medals and ribbons and all that type of thing, right in the middle of the anti-war movement," he said. "That may be, more than anything else, what convinced me the chemistry was right for me for public service. "They'd come in and prepare to see me eaten alive," he said. "By the time I lelt I never saw an audience that didn't end up giving me the courtesy of at least a sustained round of applause." With experience like that, he figured, state politics should be easy. 20 years ago and chairman of the interfraternity Rushing Committee.

After graduation, he became a Marine, and he looked so stunning in his uniform the corps sent him to the White House, where he met and married the president's daughter. Then he went off to war in Vietnam. Now, 10 years later, instead of working for him, all of this still haunts him. It is not so much the affiliation with the Johnson era although that has both assets and liabilities in a conservative Southern state like Virginia but the fear that he's too combed, curried and well-mannered. In places like Dinwiddie County, it's not as if he's asking them to vote for him for lieutenant governor; he's still asking them to join Chi Phi.

"Don't you worry sometimes that you're too pretty for politics?" a reporter finally asked him as his van, the "Chuckwagon," bounced through the rolling farm country. "Not really," came the reply. "There are some people who say 'he must be terribly stiff or stuck up' or such like that, but most people after they've got to know me a bit don't think I'm quite that standoffish. It varies from time to time, but I'm not going to change and be just the garrulous, buddy-buddy type politician, because I'm not." AT ONE POINT Robb apologized to two reporters from Texas newspapers because he did not intend to introduce them at a small country courthouse. They are following him because he is the late Lyndon Johnson's son-in-law a connection Robb does not want to stress in his campaign.

However, the present Johnson connection with Lynda Bird has given Robb some difficulties. He admits that she did not want him to get into this race, although now she Is working for him. "Oh, I've done a few things for him," she said Vietnam war, and more autonomy for themselves. On Sept. 20, 300 students took over buildings at Kyoto University, blocked campus gates, barricaded streets with desks and chairs, overturned cars and set them afire.

Riot police charged the barricades against a hail cf student firebombs. A police truck ignited and the fire spread. Two students emerged, on fire. They rolled on the ground to extinguish the flames and then vanished in the crowd, In students rioted in Paris, where protest spread to much of France's work force and shook the foundations of Charles DeGaulle's regime. This year, 1969, they were rioting in Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Honduras and, again, in Japan.

For two years, Japanese students in steel helmets, armed with stones, sticks and Molo-tov cocktails, had been creating an uproar. They, toS, were demanding an end Eg the.