At Riverside Park in Agawam, Mass., the main attraction was the Kennedy clan. Paterfamilias Ted braved the Thunderbolt roller coaster with Teddy Jr., 15, sailed through the "Music Express" with Kara, 17, and happily bumped minicars with Patrick, 10. The occasion: a three-day family outing in western Massachusetts. Besides his own brood of three, Ted took along seven of their cousins. The agenda included canoeing, visiting a wildlife sanctuary and, of course, sleeping under the stars. The Kennedys also visited the home of Herman Melville in Pittsfield, and caught the Linda Ronstadt concert at Tanglewood, where they were joined by two more cousins, Caroline and John Jr. Said Ted: "We try to do cultural things as well as fun things."

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Actress Jenny Agutter has a British passport, a bungalow in Hollywood and a career she calls "mid-Atlantic": she has starred both in English films and with Michael York in last year's Hollywood science-fiction fantasy Logan's Run. Now comes Equus, Sidney Lumet's film of the long-running Broadway psychodrama. Jenny, 24, plays a pert stablehand who tries to seduce the troubled young patient of Psychiatrist Martin Dysart (Richard Burton). In the film, as on Broadway, that scene is played au naturel, which doesn't bother Jenny, since she considers it "necessary for the story." Says she: "As soon as you start covering up, as soon as you start avoiding the nakedness, it becomes a bit naughty."

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"I'm called a superstar.

Hell, the real superstar is a man or a woman raising six kids on $150 a week, teaching them good values." The speaker is New York Knicks Forward Spencer Haywood, who left his home town of Silver City, Miss., at age 14 because there wasn't enough money to feed the ten kids in his family. At age 28, Haywood is trying to impart some "good values" to children in Manhattan's poor neighborhoods. His method? A basketball clinic where he teaches boys and girls aged ten to 17 about fair play on and off the court. At a session at a local playground, Haywood paused between games to hear his young players talk about their problems. He also passed out advice, urging his listeners to learn reading and writing and to be good citizens. Says Haywood: "These kids are living in an infested society of drugs, and they need a little attention."

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He was born to a Mississippi sharecropper and started his career with a $12.95 guitar. Now the value of Elvis Presley's multimillion-dollar empire cannot even be calculated (much of it is in future royalties). According to the terms of his will filed in a Tennessee court last week, Elvis' father, Vernon Presley, 62, is instructed to divide the estate among family members as he sees fit. The only kin mentioned were Elvis' daughter, Lisa Marie, 9, and his grandmother, Minnie Mae Presley, 85. The document, signed last March, makes no bequest to the singer's ex-wife Priscilla, 32, or his fiancee, Ginger Alden, 20, who found his body in the bathroom. Nor does Presley's will mention his longtime manager Colonel Tom Parker. Meanwhile, the Memphis police labored for a second week to keep thousands of mourners a safe 30 feet from the mausoleum where Presley is entombed.

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At his last birthday party, nobody had remembered that the venerable jazzman was a diabetic, and so he had to forgo his own birthday cake. This time round, though, Count Basie, 73, had his cake and ate it too. The mammoth, 250-lb. concoction, presented to the Count during a poolside concert in Detroit, served only 800 of the 2,000 fans present; but Basie himself dug right in, despite the 150 lbs. of sugary icing that adorned the five-layered edible grand piano. The reason: considerate chefs had grafted on a sugar-free section just for the birthday boy, who pronounced the whole affair "unforgettable."

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Israel's former Premier approved of the new play but she wondered about the title, Golda. "What would you rather call it--Sadat?" quipped Playwright William Gibson. But Golda it is, and it went into rehearsal on Broadway last week. Its star, Anne Bancroft, 45, will portray Golda Meir from 1914, when she was a teen-ager in Milwaukee, to 1973, the year of the October War. To prepare for the role, Bancroft spent a week in Israel with Golda. Her hostess took her to a wedding, a bar mitzvah, a Sabbath dinner, and let her sleep in her bed while Meir visited her daughter. Golda also answered dozens of questions. Had she ever worn a wedding ring? No. Did she often cry? Not often, but on certain occasions, for example when she was made Premier. After all this, Bancroft felt less anxious about her historic role. Says she: "I will give people insight into the woman."

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At last it is official: "Their Serene Highnesses the Prince Rainier III and the Princess of Monaco are happy to announce the engagement of their older daughter, Her Serene Highness the Princess Caroline, to Mr. Philippe Junot." The announcement from the royal palace came as no surprise. When Caroline, then 18 and a student at the Sorbonne, started going out with Junot, 35, a wealthy banking counselor and boulevardier, rumor had it that Princess Grace and Prince Rainier were not too happy about the liaison. But 20 months after the couple's first meeting, all family objections seem to have faded and last week Junot and his parents joined Caroline and her family for celebratory lunch at the palace. If the June wedding is anything like the Kelly-Grimaldi nuptials, Monaco can look forward to a week of lavish balls and perhaps a fireworks display with the initials C and P interlacing in the heavens.

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